HC Deb 27 July 1926 vol 198 cc1962-3
Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS

I beg to move, in page 9, line 6, to leave out from the word "Parliament" to the word "shall" in line 8, and to insert instead thereof the words upon the operation of this Part of this Act including information as to the extent to which amalgamations and absorptions have taken place among undertakings to which this Part of this Act applies and all such other information and statistics relevant thereto, as they may think fit, and the Board. This is an Amendment which the Government have put down in order to fulfil a promise made in Committee that the Report of the Board of Trade at the end of two years should include information as to the extent of the absorptions and amalgamations that may have taken place in the preceding two years, and such other information and statistics as may be relevant, in order that the House at the expiration of the two years may see what success the Act has attained in regard to the amalgamations and absorptions which have taken place under it.

Amendment agreed to.