HC Deb 15 March 1940 vol 358 cc1520-2W
Captain Thornton-Kemsley

asked the Minister of Food the reason for the delay of 10 to 14 days from the time M.A.P. forms are sent to slaughter-houses from collecting centres with consignments of pigs and the time the forms are returned to the centres, a delay which is causing hardship to pig producers who cannot be paid for their pigs until these forms are received?

Mr. W. S. Morrison

The delay has been due to a misunderstanding regarding the necessity for certain counter-signatures on the forms. This has now been removed and the forms should, in future, be returned within two or three days.