HC Deb 23 April 1947 vol 436 c109W
53. Lieut.-Commander Hutchison

asked the Minister of Food why a retail butcher's shop having a cooked meat department is only eligible to receive a manufacturing meat licence if there is a separate access door from the street to the cooked meat section.

Mr. Strachey

There need not be a separate door from the street, but the butcher must be able to prove that before control was introduced the cooked meats section of his shop was an entirely separate business, with separate accounts.