§ Mrs. Beatrice Wrightasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he is aware of the disappointment to housewives on learning that there is to be no specific allocation of soft fruits, in however small quantities, to use for jam-making purposes the extra ration of sugar recently permitted, together with the sugar saved during the last eight months, which will now apparently benefit only the limited number of people who have their own fruit trees; and whether he will take immediate steps to remedy this?
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§ Mr. MabaneThe offer of extra sugar was made on 23rd March in a statement which emphasised that the offer was primarily intended to give people who grow their own soft fruit an opportunity of making preserves and that the general public would not be able to rely on obtaining supplies of soft fruit from the shops. There is a reasonable prospect of plums becoming available for home jam-making later in the year.