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Mr. Alport
asked the Minister of Agriculture what compensation is available for farmers prevented from sending pigs for slaughtering, owing to foot-and-mouth standstill orders, with the result that their animals are unable to fetch maximum prices.
Sir T. Dugdale
In defining the areas in which movement of animals is restricted
port are now receiving free milk; and how these figures compare with 1938 and 1945.
Miss Horsbrugh
The following figures give the information for a day in October, 1945, and in October, 1951:
| School meals taken | |
| England and Wales | |
| October, 1945 | 1,831,877 |
| October, 1951 | 2,895,054 |
| School meals taken | |
| Newport | |
| October, 1945 | 13,470 |
| October, 1951 | 14,837 |
| Number of children receiving free milk in | |
| Newport | |
| October, 1945 | 670 |
| October, 1951 | 13,354 |
| Comparable figures are not available for 1938. | |