Civilian Clothes (Overseas Troops)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 April 1947.

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Photo of Sir Henry Legge-Bourke Sir Henry Legge-Bourke , Isle of Ely 12:00, 24 April 1947

Does the hon. Gentleman not realise that retail shops are unable to obtain enough clothes to meet the coupons of the people who deal with them; and can he give an assurance that before any clothing is exported to troops overseas some inquiry will be made to see that civilian rations will not be cut down?