HC Deb 30 November 1943 vol 395 cc205-6
69. Sir Percy Hurd

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware of the exceptional difficulty of farm workers in obtaining adequate working clothes on the present issue of coupons; and whether he will arrange for the reconditioned battledress now available to farm workers to be supplied to them without coupons?

Mr. Dalton

I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave last Tuesday to my hon. Friend the Member for Tamworth (Sir J. Mellor). I regret that, in view of the shortage of supplies, I cannot adopt my hon. Friend's suggestion.