§ 44. Miss HORSBRUGHasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the reason for the withdrawal as from 15th March, 1934, of the formula permitted during the past years for the manufacture of the preparation of methylated spirit known as surgical spirit and the substitution of two new alternative formulae?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hore-Belisha)The object was to achieve a still higher degree of unpalatability in the product.
§ Miss HORSBRUGHMay I ask my hon. Friend how he discovers this extreme unpalatability, and will be inform my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department how it is to be done?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHANo, I think persons of more experienced judgment than my hon. Friend and myself will know what unpalatability means in this connection.