HC Deb 17 May 1944 vol 400 c200W
Captain Cox

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will extend every reasonable assistance to small shopkeepers whose business has declined or been closed down as a result of wartime conditions, so that such shopkeepers may be enabled to restart remunerative businesses in the future.

Mr. Dalton

As I have previously stated, so long as the present system of licensing retailers continues, licences will be granted as a matter of course to persons on the Board of Trade's Register of Retail Traders who wish to re-establish themselves in their former businesses.