Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 31 October 1949.
Dr Edith Summerskill
, Fulham West
12:00,
31 October 1949
We have no arrangement for the purchase of butter from the Irish Butter Farm Association. Two purchases of non-creamery butter have, however,' been made from the Irish Dairy Butter Trade Limited, Cork. In June, we bought 564 tons and a further purchase of up to 400 tons was made for delivery in October and November. In each case the butter was bought for food manufacturing purposes, not for the ration.