Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 30 June 1947.
Dr Edith Summerskill
, Fulham West
12:00,
30 June 1947
One of the animals was found dead in the truck. The estimated killing-out weight of the other 29 cattle was 22,299 lb. My Department bought these cattle on the basis of live weight and estimated killing-out percentage; it is the practice not to disclose the dead-weights in the case of such purchases. In this particular case, however, I can assure my hon. Friend that the difference between the estimated and actual weights was less than 2 per cent.