§ Mr. PETOasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is aware that in many cases applications duly and correctly made to Mr. Rewcastle for forms of application for the allotment of sugar for jam preserving received no acknowledgment and consequently the distribution of sugar for this purpose is unequal, and many people who have made application as instructed are unable to obtain any supply of sugar for preserving their fruit; and whether he will instruct Mr. Rewcastle even now to 1929W send forms of application to persons who applied in writing at the proper time and whose applications have received no attention?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI regret that I can add nothing to the answer given on 6th July to the hon. Member for South Tyrone.
§ Mr. R. McNEILLasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food if he is aware that almost a month has passed since application was made by Mr. H. Goldup, of Durlock, Ash, Kent, to the representative of the Sugar Commission for a form on which to apply for sugar for jam making, but that up to the present he has received no reply; if he is aware that fruit is now rapidly spoiling through lack of means to preserve it; and if he will give directions that Mr. Goldup be immediately given the sugar he requires in order that the waste occasioned by the loss of fruit may be reduced as low as possible?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANThe lists were closed on 9th June for applications relating to sugar for the domestic preserving of fruit, and the supplies available for the preservation of soft fruit have already been distributed. It has, therefore, become impossible to review any individual case.