Foreign Meat (Prices)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 March 1947.

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Photo of Mr Evelyn Strachey Mr Evelyn Strachey , Dundee 12:00, 24 March 1947

No, Sir. The hon. Member has always been under a misapprehension about this. These purchases have never been made in the way he suggests. We get permission from the Government of the United States to buy and export. The actual purchasing is not done in bulk. Various purchases are made from time to time from the sellers of various kinds of meat in the United States.