23. Colonel Sir F. HALLasked the Home Secretary if he will say what are the respective weekly rations of German prisoners of war in this country and of British prisoners of war in Germany under the heads of meat, bread, butter or margarine, jam, tea, milk, and sugar?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONMy right hon. Friend has asked me to answer this ques- 1204 tion.As regards the scale of rations for German prisoners of war in this country, I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the statement which I circulated on the 16th April last in reply to a question by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Enfield. Since then, the meat ration has been reduced to 4 ozs. on three days a week. No butter, margarine, or milk is issued. As regards the ration supplied to our prisoners of war in Germany, I am afraid I can add nothing to the reply given on Tuesday last by my hon. Friend the Member for Central Sheffield, in answer to a question by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Faversham.
Sir F. HALLMay I ask if steps can be taken to find out exactly how our prisoners of war are being treated in Germany, and whether the German prisoners here will be treated in exactly the same manner and no better?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI am afraid I cannot usefully add anything to the statement made by my hon. Friend the Member for Central Sheffield (Mr. James Hope), who said he regretted to have to say that there was much to be desired in the treatment of our prisoners of war in Germany.