The Food Council's task would be to take up the
study of food prices where the Commission left off and to carry • out, under the President of the Board of Trade, the ' general plan outlined in the Report. It would watch prices and supplies, advise the Government on all food • questions and periodically publish the main facts about the food supply. If experience showed that compulsory powers were necessary the Government would not hesitate • to ask Parliament for them. Turning to agriculture, Mr. Baldwin regretted that the Workers' Union had declined to join in a general inquiry, but Mr. Wood, • the Minister of Agriculture, had invited the various agricultural organizations to communicate with him, and they had all sent their suggestions some of which were " of a far-reaching nature." When these suggestions had been carefully examined the Government would announce a definite policy on agriculture.
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