§ 59. Mr. Boyd-Carpenterasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to what extent a new issue of clothing rationing books has been printed; and what was the cost to public funds.
§ Mr. Glenvil HallThe supply for 1949–50 had been completed at an estimated cost for paper and printing of £112,000.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterWould not this expenditure of public funds have been saved if the Government had taken Lord Woolton's advice last summer and dispensed with clothes rationing?
§ Mr. Glenvil HallThe advice which presumably Lord Woolton gave to the Party opposite has cost this country many millions.
§ Sir Richard AclandIs not my right hon. Friend aware that Lord Woolton's advice two years ago was to cut out all capital development and public works expenditure?