§ Mr. Wilsonasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is aware that Parry's egg shop, in Main Road, Darnall, Sheffield, obtains more eggs than all the other local shopkeepers put together; and what are the reasons for this preferential treatment in the supply to this shop?
Major Lloyd GeorgeThe prices of home-produced eggs are regulated but the Ministry of Food does not control distribution. I understand that the firm mentioned by my hon. Friend own two licensed egg-packing stations and a number of retail shops, which were established before the war. The shop in Sheffield no doubt receives supplies from one of these packing stations.