Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 December 1949.
Mr Robin Turton
, Thirsk and Malton
12:00,
14 December 1949
asked the Minister of Food whether he is aware that his food executive officer informed the Aldenham Lodge Hotel Limited, that all applicants for house-charge licences must be in a position to prove that their business did, in fact, function before the war, and that the charge for a meal during the 12 months prior to September, 1939, was more than 5s. 6d.; and whether, in view of the licence he has granted to the Government Hospitality Centre in Park Street, he will now reconsider the application of Aldenham Lodge Hotel Limited for a similar licence.
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