Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies. – in the House of Commons at on 31 January 1940.
Mr. De la Bère:
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he can now give particulars of the salaries to be paid by the Ministry to officials on the Pigs and Bacon Marketing Boards who are being transferred from those boards to positions in the bacon and ham branch in the Ministry of Food?
Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd
, Mid Bedfordshire
I regret that I am not yet in a position to give my right hon. Friend the information he desires but I will circulate a statement in the OFFICIAL REPORT, in the course of the next few days.
Mr. De la Bère:
In view of the fact that the Minister was good enough to send me an explanatory letter, I will not press this matter.
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