asked the Minister of Food the percentage uptake of the various welfare foods given separately; and what steps he is taking to increase that consumption.

About 97 per cent. of those entitled to obtain milk or National Dried Milk under the welfare foods service do so.The quantities of the vitamin supplements taken up in 1951 expressed as a percentage of the full entitlement are as follows: orange juice, 30 per cent.; cod liver oil, 27 per cent.; vitamin tablets, 33 per cent. The percentage of persons using the service is higher than these figures because many do not take up their full entitlement.Every opportunity is taken by the Welfare Foods Division of the Ministry in association with the Health Departments, the local authorities and voluntary bodies to give publicity to the service, and I would like to thank in particular the local Press who have assisted considerably in spreading knowledge of this service.