Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies. – in the House of Commons at on 22 May 1941.
Mr Daniel Chater
, Bethnal Green North East
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he will now issue an order providing for the licensing of all wholesalers engaged in the distribution of foodstuffs, making it a condition of any licence that the wholesaler concerned was actually engaged in such business at the outbreak of war?