Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 July 1947.
Mr Charles Royle
, Salford West
12:00,
14 July 1947
asked the Minister of Food if he will make arrangements that all imported quarters of beef shall arrive in this country bone-in; and that the system of telescoping imported sheep and lamb shall cease.
Mr Evelyn Strachey
, Dundee
We shall do both these things as soon as we have sufficient refrigerated tonnage.
Mr Charles Royle
, Salford West
Is my right hon. Friend aware that this position is frightfully uneconomical and wasteful? Will he try as quickly as possible to put it right?
Mr George Wallace
, Chislehurst
Is my right hon. Friend aware that lack of this food is a severe handicap to mothers?
Mr Evelyn Strachey
, Dundee
We are well aware of the desirability of this form of importation, but we cannot consider it until we have considerably better supplies of the appropriate tonnage.
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