Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 31 October 1949.
Sir James Henderson-Stewart
, Fife Eastern
12:00,
31 October 1949
asked the Minister of Food if he is aware that 5½ tons of Camembert cheese was recently sold by the Edinburgh office of the Ministry of Food at £10 per ton for pig food on the grounds that the cheese was inedible; that, in fact, samples of the cheese have been found to be entirely edible; and what action he proposes to take to deal with this waste of food and public money.
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