Miss Rathboneasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is aware that recent broadcasts and speeches on the food situation have been 614W so reassuring that they may encourage unnecessary consumption of food and wasteful use of it; and will he, in future, combine these optimistic reports with reminders of the strain which a long siege is likely to place on our food stocks?
§ Mr. BoothbyI trust that the recent broadcasts and speeches have not given the impression which my hon. Friend suggests and which was not intended. The Ministry of Food is doing everything in its power to promote care in the use of food, and to avoid waste.