asked the Minister of Food to whom, in connection with the issue of extra rations of cheese and bread, the description of workers not insured under the Agricultural Unemployment Insurance Scheme but engaged full time under contracts for work in agriculture refers.

These workers include groups of men employed under contract on such tasks as ditching, draining and reconditioning agricultural land; and also hedgers, thatchers and rabbit trappers working under contract.

Would it be possible for the Minister, by the exercise of a little sympathetic imagination, to include farmers' sons in this category provided they were working under contract for their fathers?

The definition is whether or not they are wage earners.