Mr. Bowdenasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish the most recent statistics relating to the consumption of bread by pensioner households, compared with other households.
§ Mrs. FennerInformation is available from the national food survey about the household consumption of bread by pensioner households in Great Britain. The latest estimates, for the first quarter of 1983, are shown below, together with corresponding results for the years 1981 and 1982. Quarterly data for 1981 and 1982 were published in the "Monthly Digest of Statistics" (see for example table 6.16 of the April 1983 issue). More detailed results for 1981 appear in table 14 of the NFS committee's annual report published today.
Household consumption of bread in Great Britain (ounces per person per week) Pensioner households Overall averages (including pensioner households) 1981 34.09 31.23 1982 33.90 31.03 1st quarter 1983 32.99 30.66