§ 33. Mr. HALL-CAINEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what was the average delay during 1933 between the application to the Import Duties Advisory Committee for consideration of changes in existing tariffs and the date upon which a decision was reached by that committee and published?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAI am advised that the subject matter of applications to the committee varies so much in scope—ranging from single commodities to the whole of the products of large and diversified industries—and the applications vary so greatly in respect of completeness when first made to the committee, that any such average as that for which my hon. Friend asks would be very difficult to compile, and would be practically meaningless when calculated.