Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies. – in the House of Commons at on 31 January 1940.
The Flour (Prices) (No. 1) Order, 1939, defines straight run flour and fixes a "basic price" for all sales of such flour and provides for certain additions to and deductions from the basic price and for carriage, and credit. The Order prohibits the sale of flour at prices other than those specified on the Order.