The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.
Mr. F. Willey
asked the Minister of Food how the consumption of milk per head in large families compares with consumption of single persons and married people without families.
Major Lloyd George
According to the National Food Survey, which is based on a sampling procedure, the best estimates of domestic consumption and school milk, for the second half of 1951 (which is the latest period for which information is available) are as follows:
| Liquid Milk Pints per person | |
| per week. | |
| Single person | 5.9 |
| One man, one woman only | 5.5 |
| One man, one woman and 3 children under 14 | 4.9 |
| One man, one woman and 4 or more children under 14 | 4.4 |
| One man, one woman with children and adolescents | 4.4 |