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Cooking Fats (Price)

Volume 484: debated on Tuesday 27 February 1951

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asked the Minister of Food what increases in price have been charged by his Department to fish and chip friers for margarine, compound cooking fat, dripping and cooking oils; and if he will compare these prices and increases with those charged to domestic consumers.

The only fats allocated at present for fish frying are dripping and palm kernel oil. The prices of these were increased on 28th January because of increased procurement costs, as follows: Dripping from 125s. 3d. to 133s. 4d. a cwt.; palm kernel oil from 126s. 6d. to 150s. 6d. a cwt. At the same time, the price to trade users of cake and pastry margarine was increased from 125s. 3d. to 145s. 3d. a cwt. and that of compound cooking fat from 125s. 3d. to 150s. 3d. a cwt. The subsidised price of domestic cooking fat remains unchanged at 1s. a lb. (112s. a cwt.) and that of domestic margarine at 10d. a lb. (93s. 4d. a cwt.) for "special" and 6d. a lb. (56s. a cwt.) for "standard" quality.