(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT) SECRET L.P. (43)277 68 8th December, 1943. COPY NO. WAR CABINET LORD PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE RETAIL TRADE Joint Note by the Minister of Reconstruction, the President of the Board of Trade and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food. Following on the Meeting of the Committee on the 3rd December (L.P.(43) 73rd Meeting), we have consulted together and recommend that the President of the Board of Trade should make the following statement, in the early future, in reply to a Parliamentary Question in the House of Commons.