26. Mr. Creech Jonesasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Colonial Empire Marketing Board is still functioning, or whether consideration of colonial economic and commercial organisation has been deferred for the war period?
Mr. M. MacDonaldThe operations of the Colonial Empire Marketing Board have been suspended for the time being, because it is clear that under war conditions it would be impossible for the board to perform its normal functions. A great deal of attention is, however, being devoted to the economic organisation of the Colonial Empire, and for this reason I have recently enlarged the Economic Department of the Colonial Office.
§ Mr. RileyWill a report of the work of the Colonial Empire Marketing Board be presented to the House in the next few months?
Mr. MacDonaldI will consider that suggestion. The board only completed about one year's work before the war broke out, but I will consider whether any report of its year's work might be published.