§ Sir S. Crookeasked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that misgiving is widely felt by genuine wholesalers at the recent rapid increase in the number of people trading as wholesalers; and will he take immediate steps to enforce registration of wholesalers and insist on licences being applied for, as in the case of prospective retail traders.
§ Mr. DaltonNo, Sir. Wholesalers of goods controlled under the Limitation of Supplies Orders were originally required to be registered as a condition of their obtaining quota free supplies, but this requirement was later abandoned as unnecessary in the case of goods which became subject to control under the Consumer Rationing Order, or under a Control of Manufacture and Supply Order. I do not propose now to impose additional restrictions on trade of the kind to which my hon. Friend refers.