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Mr. Lewis
asked the Minister of Food for a list of food price increase, on average, both rationed and non-rationed goods, since 1946 to the latest stated date.
Major Lloyd George
The following list shows the approximate percentage increases in the retail prices of the main rationed and unrationed foods between January, 1946, and January, 1952:
| Percentage Increase | |||
| Carcase meat | … | … | 54 |
| Bacon | … | … | 71 |
| Butter | … | … | 50 |
| Margarine | … | … | 56 |
| Cooking fat | … | … | 67 |
| Cheese (rationed) | … | … | 85 |
| Tea | … | … | 22 |
| Sugar | … | … | 50 |
| Milk (full price) | … | … | 33 |
| Eggs | … | … | 125 |
| Bread | … | … | 52 |
| Flour | … | … | 32 |
| Fish— | |||
| Cod cuts | … | … | 56 |
| Herring | … | … | 70 |
| Fruit and Vegetables— | |||
| Cabbage | … | … | 15 |
| Carrots | … | … | 47 |
| Oranges | … | … | 32 |
| Potatoes | … | … | 71 |