Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 April 1948.
Mr Colin Thornton-Kemsley
, Kincardine and Western
12:00,
19 April 1948
Since there has been no purchase of food from the United States since last August, why is it necessary to keep £36,000 worth of Ministry of Food officials—40 or so—hanging about there doing nothing?
