HC Deb 28 July 1953 vol 518 cc1072-3
16. Mr. Roy Jenkins

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the present policy of the Government towards the payment of increased dividends.

Mr. R. A. Butler

Voluntary restraint rather than statutory regulation.

Mr. Jenkins

Can the right hon. Gentleman give us an assurance that the iron and steel companies at present owned by the Government, through the Iron and Steel Realisation Agency, will set an example voluntarily in that respect?

Mr. Butler

I sincerely hope that they will.