§ 79. Mr. Arbuthnotasked the President of the Board of Trade, whether he is aware that the quantity and quality of tea chests available to tea producers in India is likely to be inadequate to pack the crop for the British contract in the coming season; and if he will make representations to the Government of India to allow the importation of an adequate supply of chests for this purpose.
§ Mr. BottomleyMy right hon. Friend the Minister of Food has no reason to believe that deliveries to the United Kingdom of Indian tea against any contract which may be concluded for 1950 are endangered by the lack of suitable tea chests. The second part of the Question does not. therefore, arise.