Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies. – in the House of Commons am ar 25 Hydref 1939.
Yes, Sir, the correspondence related to supplies to an industrial co-operative society, and I should like to make it clear that there is no discrimination by my Department as between supplies to such societies and supplies to other traders. As regards the articles referred to, supplies of butter and bacon have recently been below normal; consequently it has been necessary to reduce allocations to all distributors alike. Sugar supplies have also been impartially distributed.