§ 23. Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Minister of Food if he will consider granting housewives an extra number of points for the Christmas period.
§ Mr. StracheyI should very much like to. But, as I am sure my hon. Friend would agree, nothing would be worse than to issue additional points if additional supplies of the more attractive type of points goods were not there to meet them. So what we are going to do is to leave the supply of points at 32, but to issue for Christmas an increased supply of some of the points goods most in demand.