HC Deb 05 May 1925 vol 183 c731
Mr. BRIANT

asked the President of the Board of Trade since, as it stated in the balance sheet of the Food Department for 1924, a sum of £171,000 is entered as a loss through fraud in connection with the purchase of frozen meat, what prosecutions, if any, were taken; and with what result?

Sir P. CUNLIFFE LISTER

Criminal proceedings were instituted against the managing director and the secretary of the defaulting company as well as against another director who was thought to be mainly responsible for the default. The case was tried at the Central Criminal Court in April, 1922. The managing director and the secretary were acquitted: the other director was convicted and sentenced to eighteen months in the Second Division.

Captain GARRO-JONES

What was the name of the other person?

Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER

The one who went to prison? W. H. Cuffin.