§ Lieut.-Colonel Windsor-Cliveasked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster why his representative at the Midland slaughtering centre at Birmingham has rejected a clause guaranteeing to the Ludlow, Craven Arms, and District Butchers' Association a minimum allocation of cattle and sheep each week, which clause the association wished to Insert in a contract with his Department for slaughtering cattle and sheep at the Craven Arms slaughtering centre; and whether such rejection is the invariable practice or whether any contracts have been accepted by his Department containing a similar clause?
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe slaughtering of fatstock at slaughterhouses operated under the plan for the control of meat and livestock is carried out by contractors. The number of fatstock to be slaughtered at any slaughterhouse each week will depend upon the supplies which are from time to time available. It is not possible therefore to guarantee to any slaughtering contractor a minimum allocation each week. No slaughtering contracts have been accepted by my Department containing a clause guaranteeing to the contractor a minimum allocation of cattle and sheep each week.