§ Mr. Thorneasked the Secretary for Mines whether he is aware that in the Fuel and Lighting Order a customer taking less than two tons of coal in one hundredweight lots during the year 1938– 39 need not register, but a customer taking less than two tons in more than one hundredweight lots must register, with the result that the former can now buy 40 hundredweights while a customer who, for instance, took 15 hundredweights in five hundredweight lots will only be allowed to buy 12 hundredweights; and if this anomaly will be redressed?
§ Mr. Lloyd:The anomaly to which the hon. Member refers does not arise. Article 3 (9) of the Fuel and Lighting Order, 1939, provides that where 75 per cent. of a consumer's basic quantities amounts to less than two tons per annum, he is nevertheless entitled to receive two tons.