§ Mr. GILBERTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether a new Order has been issued that all persons who have registered their names for a supply of sugar under the recent Order must now apply to the shopkeeper who supplies them for a weekly sugar voucher; and, if so, why such a condition was not issued with the first Order, so as to prevent the double work and trouble this new Order will entail on the shop- keepers and the consumers?
§ Mr. CLYNESThe hon. Member is under a misapprehension. The coupon system, to which he presumably refers, does not apply to members of registered households unless they have removed altogether or ceased to belong to the registered household. Only a small part of the population will, therefore, apply for ration papers