HC Deb 05 June 1930 vol 239 c2370
45. Mr. TOUT

asked the Prime Minister if he can now state the date when the report of the committee of inquiry into the cotton trade will be completed and the approximate date of its submission to the representatives of the trade?

The PRIME MINISTER

The committee completed their report yesterday. As I explained yesterday in connection with a question put to me by the hon. Member for East Fife (Mr. Miller), about another Committee of the Economic Advisory Council, the question of publishing the report cannot be decided until His Majesty's Government have had an opportunity of considering the Committee's recommendations.

Sir W. BRASS

Have any new facts emerged as a result of this inquiry, and has any increased employment resulted therefrom?

The PRIME MINISTER

I cannot answer the first part of the question until I have read the report, which has not yet reached my hands.

Mr. A. M. SAMUEL

Is not the one great fact that emerges against Free Trade?