Major Millsasked the Home Secretary why the dietary in force in the Isle of Man internment camps is so favourable to the internees in respect of meat and cheese, particularly if the internees are working outside the camps on approved schemes of manual work, when compared with the amount of meat and cheese which are obtainable by the British agricultural labourer?
§ Mr. H. MorrisonAs regards meat, what the internees receive under the dietary scale represents an expenditure per head of less than the present civilian ration of 1s. 2d. a week. In the case of cheese, bulk purchases of local cheese made last summer by the Manx Government have made it possible to maintain for the present the allowance of 2 ozs. a week, with an additional 1 oz. to those working on the land. There is no intention of giving the internees more favourable treatment than the ordinary civilian population, and the question whether the dietary needs revision with a view to the substitution of alternative foods for any of which there is a shortage will be kept in mind.
§ Mr. Wedgwoodasked the Home Secretary how many A-case internees there are still here or abroad who have not yet been before a second tribunal?
§ Mr. MorrisonI regret that this information is not available.