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Meat (Prices).

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies. – in the House of Commons at on 6 December 1939.

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Photo of Mr John Morgan Mr John Morgan , Doncaster

asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether the abandonment of meat control prices means that before full control comes into effect negotiations will be opened up for a fresh range of producer prices; and will those negotiations be based on the price levels reached under open market conditions now prevailing, and which will include the Christmas trade?

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