Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 December 1947.
Viscount Turnour
, Horsham
12:00,
1 December 1947
asked the hon. Member for Walthamstow, West, as Chairman of the Kitchen Committee, if any wines or spirits purchased for the Refreshment Department are sold for consumption off the premises; and if such sales are separately recorded in the accounts of the Kitchen Committee.
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