Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 July 1947.
Mr John Belcher
, Sowerby
12:00,
8 July 1947
I have no exact information as to the extent to which retailers have resumed delivery services and I am not in a position to express an opinion on their adequacy. Some allowance for delivery costs is made in the margins fixed for retailers, but not on a scale designed to encourage a return to the elaborate service given by some shopkeepers before the war.