§ 24. Mr. SITCHasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions if he has received any application on behalf of some thousands of workpeople employed by a firm in the United States of America for quantites of suits, surplus stocks of the British Army supplies; whether, before such application, if received, is allowed, he will explore and exhaust every possible avenue of disposal of such goods to the working classes at home?
Mr. DUDLEY WARD (Vice-Chamberlain of the Household)I have been asked to reply. The answer to the first part of the hon. Member's question is in the negative. With regard to the second part of the question, the surplus stocks of civilian suits have been disposed of by the Government on the lines suggested by the hon. Member.