MR. NEWDIGATE (Warwickshire, Nuneaton)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he can now state whether, in spite of the Railway Companies' statement that they were revising their rates so that the increase should in no case exceed 5 per cent., the rates on bricks sent out from the Nuneaton district show an average increase of 12½ per cent?
§ MR. MUNDELLAThe Papers submitted to me show that increases of rates are complained of, but, on the other hand, they show decreases in some of the rates for bricks charged in the Nuneaton district. I understand that the Railway Companies' Association propose to receive a deputation of brickmakers in order to discuss these complaints, and I hope a satisfactory arrangement may be arrived at.