§ Commander BELLAIRSasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether the policy of saving transport adopted by his Department applies also to the Sugar Commission; whether he is aware that dealers in the counties surrounding London are compelled to receive sugar from Glasgow and to receive a kind of sugar which they may have had before the War for sweet-makers, which they are not now permitted to sell to sweet-makers, and which, consequently, they do not want; and whether, if he has no power of enforcing this rule to buy only what is wanted from the nearest source, he will indicate the best course for representations to be made?
§ Mr. CLYNESThe policy in regard to transport varies to some extent with the commodity concerned. That' of the Sugar Commission is to require traders to obtain supplies from the same sources as in 1915. No trader is compelled to take any sugar, but each trader receiving sugar must take his fair quota of such qualities as are now available. War conditions rule out nice discriminations between different qualities. The amount to which a wholesale dealer is now entitled is limited by the number of vouchers lodged with him under the rationing system. Any representation on this subject that the hon. and gallant 551W Member may desire to make can be made to the Sugar Commission or the hon. Member for Wilton as chairman.