§ Mr. Spearmanasked the Minister of Health if he will give an assurance that the loans to local authorities in the coastal 756W areas to enable them to lend £150 to traders will be granted on the merits of the case and not on whether they happen to be inside a geographical line arbitrarily drawn.
§ Mr. WillinkIn deciding whether to authorise any particular local authority to make loans to small traders and to put the authority in funds for that purpose, I shall, of course, have regard to the merits of the case; but the Defence Regulation governing the matter limits my discretion to holiday resorts lying within a prescribed coastal area.