Exemption for Small Traders

Part of New Clause 1 – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 June 1974.

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Photo of Mr Emlyn Hooson Mr Emlyn Hooson , Montgomery 12:00, 12 June 1974

I support the clause. The hon. Member for Edmonton (Mr. Graham) uttered a truism when he said that the small shopkeeper's biggest enemy was the large shop. But orders made under the Bill will bear much more hardly on the small shop. I do not accept that the days of the small shop are numbered. In the United States, where the processes that he described took place long before they did here, and large supermarkets developed on the outskirts of cities, one of the notable developments of the last five years has been the springing back into existence of the small corner shop.