HC Deb 23 February 1948 vol 447 c1593
32. Major Legge-Bourke

asked the Minister of Food why sugar beet growers are refused a special allocation of sugar.

Mr. Strachey

I cannot see any justification for granting an additional allowance of sugar to beet growers.

Major Legge-Bourke

Is it not a tact that when a recent request for this allocation was made, the Ministry turned it down on the ground that it would be unfair to give a small section of the community preferential treatment in rationed goods? In view of the fact that coal miners are allowed to have a special ration of coal, would it not be fair to allow farm workers who produce sugar beet to have a ration of sugar?

Mr. Strachey

We could not give a particular class of agricultural workers a special ration of the food they produce.

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