§ Mr. Rentonasked the President of the Board of Trade what proportion of those Government surplus goods which were saleable in drapery stores were allocated to the greater London area; what proportion went to large provincial towns; and what proportion went to country towns and villages.
§ Sir S. CrippsThere are no specific allocations of the kind indicated in the Question but the organisations through which the clothing is distributed were asked to see that their members distributed the goods fairly to their customers, subject to a request to favour the mining and industrial areas which were, in general, less well supplied than others.