§ 14. Mr. BURNETTasked the Home Secretary whether any progress has been made as a result of correspondence between his Department and the organisations representing auctioneers of chattels to ensure that in any announcement of prices realised at auctions the amounts shall refer to actual sales and not to prices at which chattels have been bought in by, or on behalf of, vendors or their representatives?
§ Sir J. GILMOURThe correspondence to which my hon. Friend refers was with the Auctioneers' and Estate Agents' Institute. That body has now reported that the practice of issuing priced catalogues after a sale of chattels is rarely adopted by firms including members of the institute, and that, where it is adopted by such firms, "bought in" prices are not shown. I am having further inquiries made.