§ 45. Sir Granville Gibsonasked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the necessity to maintain and expand our export trade, he will constitute a coordinating committee, consisting of representatives of the Ministers in charge of the Foreign Office, Dominions Office, Colonial Office, Board of Trade, Depart ment of Overseas Trade, Ministry of Food, and Ministry of Economic Warfare, to evolve an export trade policy to meet the new conditions brought about by the war; and whether he will instruct such coordinating committee, when constituted, to secure the assistance of an advisory committee composed of persons engaged in the export trade?
§ The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)I would refer my hon. Friend to the answer which I gave yesterday to my hon. Friend the Member for Lincoln (Mr. Liddall).