Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 February 1955.
My hon. and gallant Friend will realise that the figures I have given show an increase in the permanent sheep stocks. The fall in the number of sheep is largely due, as my hon. and gallant Friend has said, to the earlier slaughtering of lambs, which was really brought about by the housewife demanding smaller joints.