HC Deb 14 November 1933 vol 281 cc754-5W
Mr. CRAVEN-ELLIS

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if the organising committee of the World Economic Conference has met to consider the position created by the devaluation of currency which has taken place since the date of the tariff truce resolution; and, if so, what decision did it come to?

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

The answer is in the negative.

Mr. BERNAYS

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can give any information as to the date when the World Monetary and Economic Conference will reassemble?

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

I would refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave to the hon. Members for Wolver hampton East (Mr. Mander) and Chiselhurst (Mr. Smithers) on Tuesday last.

Captain P. MACDONALD

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can now state what has been the cost of the World Economic Conference to this country up to date?

Mr. EDEN

The cost of the Conference to His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, so far as it has been possible to ascertain it up to the present, amounts approximately to £25,000. This sum does not include the cost of the restoration of the new geological museum building to its original purpose.

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