Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment and Productivity – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 November 1969.
Does the Prime Minister recall that in 1965 the Government told us that 361,000 old people never, or rarely, had a hot meal? Is the Prime Minister aware that now, in 1969, a growing number of old people are found on admission to hospital to be suffering from malnutrition, a state into which they relapse after being released? When are the Government going to deal with this problem?