50. Colonel NEWMANasked the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the demand of the middle classes, who compose the largest section of the community, that the agreements, deficiencies, and subsidies, representing a gross charge in the present year of over £111,000,000 on the taxpayer, shall cease: and is he prepared to abandon the policy of subsidising one section of the community at the expense of another?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI do not accept my hon. and gallant Friend's figures, but it is the general policy of His Majesty's Government to bring all war subsidies to a close at the earliest possible moment, and steps have already been taken to end them all, with the exception of the bread subsidy.