HC Deb 14 October 1943 vol 392 c1049
50. Mr. John Dugdale

asked the Minister of Agriculture the maximum amount of petrol which he instructs the county war agricultural executive committees should be used to transport a single land-worker to and from a day's work?

Mr. Hudson

Arrangements for local transport of land workers to and from work are made at the discretion of county war agricultural executive committees who have been instructed to exercise a strict economy in the use of all kinds of fuel.

Mr. Dugdale

Does the right hon. Gentleman really think it right that a three-ton lorry, using 31 gallons of petrol, should be used to take four girls to work? Is that not waste of petrol?

Mr. Hudson

I would not like to express an opinion on that without knowing the full facts. It might well have been an individual case.