Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 9 Mehefin 1947.
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Mr. YORK:48. To ask the Minister of Agriculture if he will obtain an increased allocation of steel for the agricultural industry for the second quarter of 1947, as he is aware that the makers of tractors, machinery equipment and spare parts and also structural engineers working on agricultural buidings are either slowed down or at a standstill through shortage of steel.
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