§ Mr. Carterasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the price of the following items on the most recent date, taking the price immediately before decimalisation as 100, namely, bread, eggs, potatoes, bacon, chocolate, sweets, butter, margarine, beer, apples, blackcurrant jam, flour, milk, minced beef, sausages, steak and salt.
§ Mr. PriorThe information available from the data collected for the purposes 497W of the General Index of Retail Prices is as follows:
Item Percentage Increase in Average Price between mid-January 1971 and mid-April 1972 Beef: Home-Killed Rump steak* 18.0 Beef: Imported, Chilled Rump steak* 19.1 Sausages Pork 6.2 Beef 9.8 Bacon Collar* 4.6 Gammon* 7.5 Middle cut,* smoked 7.6 Back, smoked 10.1 Back, unsmoked 8.7 Streaky, smoked 4.9 Bread White, l¾lb. wrapped and sliced loaf 4.2 White, l¾lb. unwrapped Loaf 5.4 White, 14 oz. Loaf 12.7 Brown, 14 oz. Loaf 6.2 Flour Self raising, 3 lb. 7.5 Milk, ordinary, per pint — Butter New Zealand 63.4 Danish 43.7 Margarine Standard quality (without added butter) per ½lb. 6.8 Lower priced, per ½ lb. 3.9 Eggs Large, per doz. — 17.7 Standard, per doz. — 20.9 Medium, per doz. — 22.1 Potatoes, Old White, loose 17.6 Red, loose 15.0 Apples Cooking 58.3 Dessert 21.4 Beer 6.0 * Or Scottish equivalent. Comparable information is not available for chocolate, sweets, blackcurrant jam, minced beef or salt.