HC Deb 03 November 1949 vol 469 cc69-70W
101. Mr. Bossom

asked the Minister of Food as all merchants and farmers are required to return a form to Stanmore, stating how much grain is purchased and how much is grown, why do merchants also have to send such information to their local food office.

Mr. Strachey

Farmers make no such returns to my Department at Stan-more. A return is made by approved buyers once each month showing their purchases of all grains from growers and sales of seed grain to growers. As a separate piece of machinery to deal with grain supplied as feedingstuffs, they make another return to the divisional feeding-stuffs executive officer in their area of rationed documents received by them for grain supplied as feedingstuffs.