asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what information he has concerning the proportion of households, in each region of the United Kingdom, which owns a refrigerator.

I refer my hon. Friend to table 70 on page 125 of the 1975 Family Expenditure Survey, published by the Department of Employment. More up-to-date information for Great Britain only is available in Table 10, Appendix A, page 131 of the Report of the National Food Survey Committee for 1976.