Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 3 Chwefror 1947.
asked the Minister of Food if he is aware that a farmer in North Lincolnshire has been offered the following amounts of vegetables in the last five months: cabbage 83 tons, savoy 240 tons, brussel sprouts 40 tons, red beet 400 tons, harvest onions 22 tons, spring onions 6 acres and carrots 200 tons, but has not been able to take this food to industrial centres because a wholesale and selling agent's licence has been refused; that, consequently, some of this food has been left in the fields to rot; and why this type of trade cannot be freed of control.
Farmers need no licences to sell cabbage, savoy, sprouts or red beet by wholesale. As to the other vegetables mentioned, I am considering whether it would be in the public interest to relax the control further.
is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that there has been a good deal of food wasted because farmers cannot get a licence? Will he not consider allowing food to be taken to industrial sites?
In the cases of the vegetables I have named, there is no need for a licence at all.