§ 28. Sir R. Rankinasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will give the names of those appointed to the committee which he has set up to deal with diverted cargoes originally intended for the Far East; and will he state the bodies which they represent?
§ Mr. DaltonI will, with my hon. Friend's permission, circulate the information asked for in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the information:
§ Alan Stewart Gilbert (Chairman) (Board of Trade).
§ Henry William Hollyer (Ministry of War Transport).
§ Frederick Skone-James (India Office).
§ Thomas Eatough (Export Credits Guarantee Department).
§ Walter Robert Over (Department of Overseas Trace).
§ Alfred Sidney Todd (Messrs. Gordon, Woodroffe and Company, Limited). (Representing the Diverted Cargoes Committee of the London Chamber of Commerce.)
§ Stanley Plowden Roberts (Messrs. Cox and Kings (Agents), Limited). (Representing the Diverted Cargoes Committee of the London Chamber of Commerce.)
§ Frank Simcox Winterbottom (Messrs. Leonard Plews Stockdale and. Company, Limited). (Representing the Diverted Cargoes Committee of the London Chamber of Commerce.)
§ Of these, Mr. Winterbottom, who is the representative of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on the Diverted Cargoes Committee of the London Chamber of Commerce, represents Manchester interests on the official committee.