§ 61. Mr. LEACHasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury why new potatoes are excluded from the recommendation to abolish the duty of £1 and £2 per ton contained in Command Paper 5135; and has he noted the threat of the Import Duties Advisory Committee on page 3 to reimpose the duty if prices fall too far?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI presume that the Committee did not consider that any action on their part was called for in relation to new potatoes. I have noted that the Committee propose to review the question of duties on main-crop potatoes when the present abnormal situation with regard to supplies has ceased to operate; but I would not describe their statement as a threat.
§ Mr. LEACHWill the Chancellor of the Exchequer not intimate to the Advisory Committee that the process of raising the cost of food has gone far enough?