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Estimates Of Demand For Foodstuffs

Volume 415: debated on Monday 15 December 1980

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asled Her Majesty's Government:Whether estimates are ever prepared of the future demand for any variety, sort or kind of British agricultural produce by the economists employed by them, and whether these estimates allow for any possible change in relative price.

Estimates of the possible development of demand for foodstuffs of various kinds are frequently prepared within the Ministry. These take account of assumed relative prices using the results of analyses of recent changes in consumption patterns and prices which have been recorded by the National Food Survey. The Report of the National Food Survey Committee provides estimates of demand parameters.