HC Deb 19 July 1967 vol 750 c279W
Mr. Alan Williams

asked the Minister of Health what evidence he has received from local authorities of any security hazard resulting from the changeover, in the issuing of welfare foods, from a system based on payment by stamps to a system based on payment by cash.

Mr. K. Robinson

Local authorities have discretion to decide between the two methods of payment. I have no evidence of any substantive security hazard arising from the system based on payment by cash, which most authorities have now adopted.