§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table of figures, based on information available from international sources, giving the retail price of liquid milk, butter and cheese from information in his possession of the world statistics on a basis of cost in United States cents of a litre of milk and per kilogramme of butter and cheese.
§ Mr. PriorThe International Dairy Federation has recently published figures for 1969. These are included in the January issue of theDairy Mirror and I am placing a copy in the Library. Retail 392W prices from other sources for the most recent month in 1971 for which the information is available in each case are set out below. Because of wide variations in the quality and form in which the products are sold in different countries and because the price information below relates to different months, the prices are not strictly comparable.
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Liquid Milk, United States Cents per Litre New Zealand 8 Irish Republic 17 France 19 Denmark 19 Belgium 19 Finland 19 Netherlands 19 South Africa 19 Austria 19 Federal Republic of Germany 23 Italy 23 United Kingdom 23
Australia 25 Switzerland 25 Sweden 27 Canada 30 United States 36 Japan 42 Butter, United States Cents per Kilogramme New Zealand 74 South Africa 130 Irish Republic 132 Australia 135 United Kingdom 156 Canada 156 Norway 156 Denmark 185 Austria 185 Finland 190 United States 193 Sweden 201 Netherlands 212 Federal Republic of Germany 220 Belgium 222 France 246 Japan 246 Italy 283 Switzerland 323 Cheese. United States Cents per Kilogramme Irish Republic 108 New Zealand 111 Australia 114 South Africa 116 Norway 148 United Kingdom 151 Belgium 169 Denmark 172 Austria 175 Finland 188 Netherlands 190 Canada 209 France 233 United States 235 Federal Republic of Germany 259 Switzerland 262 Italy 439