Orders of the Day — Baking Industry (Small Establishments and Seasonal Resorts) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 February 1959.

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Photo of Dr Horace King Dr Horace King , Southampton, Itchen 12:00, 13 February 1959

I thought that the hon. Gentleman would not have intervened until after I had made my point. As I say, the Amendment that I have just read was moved by the hon. Member for the Isle of Thanet. The Minister left no doubt as to his own opinion both of the case and of the Amendment, when he said: So far as those bakeries are concerned, there are adequate powers under subsection (2, b) and (2, c) of Clause 2, for the Minister too allow a bakery to use up its ration of night work and compress it into the months of the summer, when the exceptional demand arises. He went on to say: While I recognise the attractions of Margate and Blackpool"— and I should be pleased as a Yorkshire-man to add, for the hon. Member who spoke earlier, Scarborough—