2 of the purchase tax on clothing; but Utility clothing, which, unlike other clothing, is manufactured under the close supervision of the Board of Trade, is free of purchase tax. Bread was subsidised at an early date because the supply of raw material, the manufacture and the sale are well under control. Vegetables, on the other hand, present much greater difficulties of control, and have not hitherto been subsidised. Subsidies, however, have not been directed exclusively to price stabilisation but have also included expenditure incurred primarily for nutritional reasons—for example, the National Milk Scheme and the School Meals Scheme.