Imported Commodities (Bulk Purchase)

HC Deb 27 July 1944 vol 402 c893

60. Mr. Parker

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he proposes to continue the bulk purchase of imported commodities after the war.

Mr. Johnstone

I would refer my hon. Friend to the statement on this subject made by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 22nd June in the course of the Debate on Employment Policy, copy of which I am sending to him. To this there is nothing to add.

Mr. Parker

How does my right hon. Friend reconcile that statement with the speeches he himself has made recently outside the House?

Mr. Johnstone

There is nothing whatever irreconcilable between the two.