§ Mr. Stubbsasked the Minister of Food if he is aware that displaced persons at the Bottisham Camp receive five additional meals each week; that they have a main meat dish for lunch and a similar dish consisting of meat as a rule for tea; and how this compares with the rations of farm workers.
§ Mr. StracheyBottisham Camp is one, of four camps at which displaced persons are being trained for work in coal mines. They receive allowances of food equivalent to the normal domestic rations together with an allowance of five additional meals per head each week on the ordinary catering scale. How these allowances of food are used is left to the management of the camp. Agricultural workers who live at home and have no canteen facilities at their work may draw the special allowance of 12 oz. of cheese (instead of 1½ oz.) and the bread that goes with it, in addition to the six extra bread units for manual workers. They may also obtain the season allowances of rationed foods while engaged on certain farming operations, and tea, sugar and milk for brewing tea.