Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies

– in the House of Commons ar 31 Mawrth 1947.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

  • Sugar (Domestic Jam Making) (6 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food if he will arrange for a higher supplementary ration of sugar for fruit preserving and jam making this summer than last year.

  • British Cheese (Subsidy) (12 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food what the subsidy on British cheese will be per pound now that the retail price is being reduced from 1s. 1d. to 10d.; and whether he intends to maintain a retail price...

  • Milk Supplies (Women's Institute Meetings) (4 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food whether he will authorise the provision of milk on the occasion of the regular monthly meetings of the local branches of the Women's Institute.

  • Indonesian Foodstuffs (8 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food whether any arrangements are being made to open trade relations with Indonesia, in view of the supplies of sugar, fats and rice which are available in that country.

  • Carrots (6 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food whether he will remove restrictions in respect of the movement of carrots between England and Scotland after 31st March of this year.

  • U.S.A. Potato Crops (2 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the U.S. Government proposes to destroy, owing to glut, 20,000,000 bushels of potatoes in 1947 and a similar quantity...

  • Frozen Salmon (Prices) (6 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food why frozen salmon prices are fixed at 6s. 8d. per pound when pre-war it was sold at 1s. 2d. to 1s. 4d. per pound.

  • Meat Allocations (15 areithiau)

    Lieut.-Colonel Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: asked the Minister of Food what proportion of the weekly meat ration is composed of categories of meat which all butchers were not used to selling in...

  • Food Seizures (Compensation) (6 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food if he will state with regard to each of the 10 cases during 1946, in which the defendants were acquitted after their goods had been seized under the Seizure of Food...

  • American Turkeys (5 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food if he will make available some of the turkeys from the U.S.A. to butchers in the rural areas for cooking and selling in sandwiches and by so doing help the farmworkers'...

  • Imported Fruits (14 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food whether he will now stop the importing of luxury fruits such as pineapples, pomegranates, etc., which are beyond the reach of the working-class purse, with a view to...

  • Eggs (Allocations) (5 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food whether he will ensure that music-hall artistes and other holders of emergency travellers' ration books get the egg ration to which they are entitled.

  • Fish Frying Fats (2 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food if he will state the total quantity of edible oils and fats on the ration issued to fish fryers and caterers for the year ended December, 1946.

  • Investigations, Coatbridge (3 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food why officers of his Department are calling at houses in Greenend, Coatbridge, asking to see contents of cupboards and weighing jam found therein; and under what...

  • Bitter Oranges (2 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food when East Dorset is likely to receive an allocation of bitter oranges; and if he will give an assurance that those parts of the county which get no allocation this...

  • Potatoes (10 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food what estimated damage has been done by frost to potatoes stored in clamps in Scotland.

  • Dried Egg (Dollar Cost) (4 areithiau)

    asked the Minister of Food if he will state the cost in dollars of dried eggs, and of shell eggs produced from foreign feeding stuffs.