HC Deb 09 March 1953 vol 512 c831
35. Mrs. Mann

asked the Minister of Food how many items of food were removed from points rationing during 1950, including the different kinds of jams, syrup, tinned fruit, tinned fish, biscuits and cereals.

Major Lloyd George

About 90. I am sending the hon. Member a list, but it does not include jams, as these were removed from points rationing in 1948.

Mrs. Mann

Does the list which the right hon. and gallant Gentleman intends to send me reveal that the Labour Government took almost 90 items outside the ration book? Does not the right hon. and gallant Gentleman think that was a remarkable achievement by the Labour Government?

Major Lloyd George

I would say that was one of the rather bright spots in a rather gloomy picture.

Captain Pilkington

Were not these 90 items removed entirely as a result of Conservative pressure?

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