§ 42. Mr. LAMBERTasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if any comparison has been or can be made, illustrating the additional burden in terms of commodities, of national and local expenditure, comparing 1931 with the year of the establishment of the gold standard in 1925?
§ Mr. P. SNOWDENI doubt whether such a comparison is practicable; and in any case the attempt to make it would involve an amount of work disproportionate to the value of the result.
§ Mr. LAMBERTIs the right hon. Gentleman not aware of the almost crushing burden on the producers of the country, owing to the great fall in prices in the last two years?