§ 12. Sir W. DAVISONasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether an assurance has now been obtained from the Soviet Government, in reply to the representations made by the British Government, that the restrictions imposed in the past on local purchases, and also on the importation, free of duty, of supplies by His Majesty's representatives in the Soviet Union, have now been withdrawn?
§ Mr. EDENAs my right hon. Friend stated on the 7th February, in reply to the hon. Member for Gower (Mr. D. Grenfell), His Majesty's Government considered it essential that necessary supplies should be available to His Majesty's representatives in the Soviet Union at reasonable prices, and that such supplies as those representatives found it necessary to import would not be subject to import duties. The arrangements now in force meet these two conditions.