asked the Minister of Food the value in calories of the food energy per capita per day of all nutrients available for civilian consumption in the United Kingdom during 1946, and itemise the per capita supplies of the following foodstuffs moving into civilian consumption in 1946 as compared with the average per capita supplies for 1934–38; milk, milk products, excluding cheese and butter, poultry and game, eggs, shell, dried and liquid, in fresh egg equivalent weight, flour and grain products, all vegetables, tea, cocoa and coffee, fats and oils, excluding butter, tomatoes and fruits of all sorts including nuts and pulses, sugar and potatoes.

The answer is contained in the statistics given below. They show that the number of calories available to civilian consumers per head per day in 1946 was 2,890, not, as has been erroneously stated, 2,100. The consumption of some individual foods in 1946 expressed as a percentage of their prewar consumption was as follows: Liquid milk, 144; eggs, shell, dried and liquid, 87; flour and grain products, 115; all vegetables, 110: tea, 96; oils and fats excluding butter, 105; butter, 44; bacon, 55; all other meats, 93; fish, 120; sugar, 72; potatoes, 161.

asked the Minister of Food whether he will issue a table showing the present increase or decrease of the weekly average consumption of each of the principal items of foods compared with the figures for 1914–20 and 1938.

, pursuant to her reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th May, 1947, Vol. 437, c. 2], supplied the following information: