§ 50. Major Stourtonasked the Minister of Food whether his attention has been drawn to the operation of the scheme for the rationalisation of milk deliveries in Salford; whether he is aware that many households have been deprived thereby of milk deliveries on three, four or five days a week; and what steps he proposes to take to secure daily supplies to all the population of the city?
§ Colonel LlewellinThe difficulties referred to by my hon. and gallant Friend are not due, as he suggests, to zoning, but to the shortage of milk, milk bottles and labour. For non-priority adults, for whom the weekly allowance is two pints per week, it is not possible to arrange for more than two deliveries to single-member households or more than four deliveries to two-member households in cases where pint bottles are in use. Such deliveries will, however, be evenly spaced over the week.
§ Major StourtonCould not arrangements be made for half-pint bottles to be provided, to enable deliveries to take place more than twice a week?
§ Colonel LlewellinNo, one of the difficulties is that there are not enough half-pint bottles, and the filling arrangements are made for filling pint bottles.