§ Sir W. Smithersasked the Minister of Food why his Department informed the United Emergency Fund for Britain that Britain was living on marginal constitutional 8W standards and expressed anxiety for the physique and health of our people; and what steps he is taking to remedy the situation described.
§ Mr. StracheyIn August we were asked by the U.E.F.B. to give as accurate an account as we could of the state of the national nutrition. We replied, as we have repeatesdly said before and since, that our present diet, though nutritionally adequate, left little margin and that we were making every effort to supplement it within the limits of our financial strength. This in part we have succeeded in doing as the recent increases in the distribution of sugar and fats bear witness.