asked the Minister of Food if, in the interest of promoting food production in Britain, steps can be taken to ensure first place in the home market to British commercial producers of honey, so as to avoid hardship to home producers who have to face foreign exporters selling lower grades at cheaper prices.

I do not think that it would be in the general interest that we should place any restriction on imports of honey, nor am I satisfied that home producers are suffering hardship as a result of competition from imports. Most of the honey we import comes from the Commonwealth and I am glad there is plenty of it for the public at reasonable prices.