§ Sir Smedley Crookeasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food the number of small shopkeepers in the city of Birmingham from whom licences to trade with registered customers have been withdrawn?
Major Lloyd GeorgeThe number of shopkeepers in Birmingham from whom the supply of one or more rationed foods has been withdrawn, after consideration by the Food Control Committee of the convenience of the consumers and of the hardship to individual small traders, is 219.