HC Deb 15 December 1943 vol 395 c1544
52. Mr. Liddall

asked the Minister of Food the number of retail businesses transferred from private traders to the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society and to multiple trading concerns, as well as the number of new businesses for which retail licences to deal in foodstuffs have been granted to these concerns?

Colonel Llewellin

I regret that the figures for which my hon. Friend asks are not available and could not be obtained without an unjustifiable expediture of man-power and time.