Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 26 November 1947.
Mr Herbert Bowden
, Leicester South
12:00,
26 November 1947
asked the Minister of Food if cake manufacturers are free to allocate their products as they wish, or do retailers receive an allocation of cake in proportion to their 1939 trade with the manufacturers and the total ingredients granted to them.
Mr Evelyn Strachey
, Dundee
Manufacturers of cakes and flour confectionery are free to sell their products to whom they wish, but as allocations of rationed ingredients are based on trade in 1939, I expect them to treat their prewar customers fairly and to have regard to equitable distribution of their products.
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