HC Deb 28 January 1930 vol 234 cc841-2
45. Captain CROOKSHANK

asked the Prime Minister if it is the intention of the Government to proceed with the Coast Protection Bill?

46. Viscount ELMLEY

asked the Prime Minister if any decision has been reached as to whether the Coast Protection Bill will be proceeded with; and, if so, when the Money Resolution will be taken?

Mr. GRAHAM

As the answer necessarily contains a number of figures I will, with the right hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

Following is the answer:

The prices of three representative kinds of wheat and of the four-pound loaf in January, 1913, and January, 1930, were as follows:

The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald)

I regret that I can add nothing to the replies which I gave on this subject on the 21st January. No change has taken place.

Viscount ELMLEY

Cannot the Prime Minister say when the Government are going to make up their mind upon this point?

The PRIME MINISTER

The Government have made up their mind. At the beginning of the Session the Government produced a Bill, and informed the House when the Bill was introduced that, if it was to go through, it had to be treated as practically a non-contentious Bill. That has not happened.

Captain CROOKSHANK

Does not that answer mean that it is not going through?