Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 December 1949.
Mr Harold Wilson
, Ormskirk
12:00,
8 December 1949
Detailed specifications of utility footwear have been departed from so as to allow for greater flexibility in manufacture and to give the public a wider choice of styles. The Board of Trade keeps a careful watch on the quality of the output. Manufacturers generally are co-operating and producing satisfactory footwear. I have no knowledge of shoes being made with shoulder soles and cardboard insoles, but if the hon. Member would let me have details of the specific cases he has in mind I would have them investigated.