Mr. R. Duckworthasked the Minister of Food if he can state by counties how many British Restaurants have opened and how many have closed since the start of the year.
§ Colonel LlewellinThe particulars asked for of British Restaurants set up under the Ministry of Food scheme which have been opened from January to May, 1944, and of the Restaurants closed in the same period are as follows:1166W
County. Opened. Closed. Buckinghamshire … — 1 Cheshire … — 1 Cumberland … 1 — Derbyshire … 2 — Devonshire … 1 1 Durham … 4 4 Essex … 1 1 Gloucestershire … 1 2 Hertfordshire … — 1 Kent … 2 3 Lancashire … 12 3 Leicestershire … 1 1 Lincolnshire … 1 — Middlesex … 5 1 Norfolk … 1 — Northamptonshire … 1 1 Northumberland … 2 13 Nottinghamshire … — 2 Staffordshire … 1 — Surrey … 1 2 Warwickshire … 1 — Yorkshire N.R. … — 1 Yorkshire W.R. … 4 14 Denbighshire … — 3 Glamorgan … 2 — Monmouthshire … — 2 Ayrshire … 1 — Dunbartonshire … 1 — Fifeshire … 1 — Lanarkshire … 1 — Midlothian … 2 1 Morayshire … 1 — Renfrewshire … 2 —