Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 July 1947.
Mr Evelyn Strachey
, Dundee
12:00,
14 July 1947
Allocations to grocers, whatever the number of shops they control, are based on sugar registrations; and to other retailers on their prewar trade. We do not know what percentages of each allocation go to the various classes of traders, and to extract this information would, I am afraid, take too much time and labour. Dried fruits are subject to maximum prices and Points rationing.