§ Mr. Stokesasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he has now agreed to permit the sum of£250,000, raised by voluntary subscription, to be sent to Denmark, thereby enabling about 125,000 parcels of food, each capable of sustaining an adult person for two months, to be sent to starving people in Europe.
1047W
§ Mr. Glenvil HallNo, Sir. All available food surpluses in Denmark have been allocated by the Anglo-American Combined Food Board according to the needs of the countries concerned, including France, Holland and Belgium and of B.A.O.R., and my right hon. Friend the Minister of Food and I are agreed that it would be incompatible with those allocations to allow exchange to private organisations to buy and divert these surpluses.