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Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite
asked the Minister of Food the tonnage sugar allocations to individual industries for 1951, together with the percentages of datum usage compared with 1950.
| ANALYSIS OF ALLOCATIONS FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1951 | |||||
| Sugar as refined | Percentage of Datum | ||||
| For production of | Thousand tons | 1951 | 1950 | ||
| Preserves | … | … | 194·0 | (*) | (*) |
| Chocolate and sugar confectionery | … | … | 183·5 | 62½ (†) | 57½–60 |
| Cake and flour confectionery | … | … | 118·9 | 56½ | 55 |
| Syrup and treacle | … | … | 80·0 | (*) | (*) |
| Biscuits | … | … | 52·6 | (*) | (*) |
| Brewing | … | … | 45·9 | 64 | 64 |
| Condensed milk | … | … | 32·5 | (*) | (*) |
| Soft drinks (liquid) | … | … | 30·2 | 59 | 59 |
| Canning | … | … | 15·1 | (*) | (*) |
| Bakers' prepared materials | … | … | 13·4 | 65 | 65–70 |
| Medicinal preparations | … | … | 11·8 | 80–135 | 80–135 |
| Table jellies | … | … | 11·7 | 55 | 50 |
| Ice cream | … | … | 10·4 | 57½ | 57½ |
| Coffee essence | … | … | 7·6 | (*) | (*) |
| Candied peel | … | … | 5·3 | 60 | 60 |
| Cider | … | … | 4·2 | 75 | 67½ |
| Breakfast cereals | … | … | 3·8 | (*) | (*) |
| Pickles and sauces | … | … | 3·5 | (*) | (*) |
| Lemonade powders, etc. | … | … | 3·4 | 59 | 45 |
| British wines | … | … | 3·2 | 55 | 50 |
| Cake and flour mixtures | … | … | 3·0 | 66 | 62 |
| Medicated sugar confectionery | … | … | 2·0 | 62½ | 60 |
| Miscellaneous | … | … | 27·3 | — | — |
| (*) Not allocated as a percentage of pre-war usage. | |||||
| (†) Calculated on new basis. On the old basis the percentage is 60. | |||||