asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food if he will consent to permit retail grocers with whom fifty-six or even twenty-eight customers have registered themselves for their margarine supply to continue to have their necessary quantities of margarine, sugar, and other controlled foods?

Food control committees have full power to permit retail grocers to continue in business as registered retailers of margarine, however small the number of customers who have registered with them. No proposal for the general restriction of supplies of other foodstuffs to such retail grocers has been made.