§ MR. FELL (Great Yarmouth)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the object of the publication at the present time by His Majesty's Treasury of the Memorandum by Processor Marshall on the fiscal question; that was the cost of it; under which 1380 Vote will it be included; and will the Treasury publish and circulate in the same way a reply to it and to the arguments and disputed statements contained in it.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) Professor Marshall's Memorandum on the Fiscal Policy of International Trade, which was prepared for the late Government, has been published now in consequence of a pledge given by the Prime Minister to the hon. Member for Dulwich on 2nd June last in the course of the debate on the Second Reading of the Finance Bill. The hon. Member had challenged certain figures which I had quoted in regard to the cost of living in Germany, and, in accordance with the invariable custom of this House, we immediately agreed to lay upon the Table the document from which they had been extracted. The cost of printing the Memorandum is £12, which will be included under the Stationery Office Vote. The same reasons would not apply for incurring the cost of publishing further Memoranda on the same subject.