asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food what for the last convenient period was the gross total of soap produced in Scotland; and what, for the same period, was the consumption of soap in Scotland for industrial and domestic purposes?

It is not in the public interest to give precise figures of soap production and consumption, but I think my hon. Friend's purpose will be met if I say that the rate of production of rationed soaps in Scotland at the end of 1942 was equivalent to rather more than 40 percent. of the consumption in Scotland.