§ 18. Mr. Buchanan-Smithasked the President of the Board of Trade what action he now proposes to take to assist the chipboard industry to replace materials at present imported.
§ Mr. DarlingDevaluation should assist the chipboard industry and, from discussions my Department have had, I know that the industry is well aware of the opportunities now presented. All the forms of assistance offered by the Government to industrialists are, of course, available to the chipboard industry.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithWould not the best action be to control the dumping of chipboard from Eastern European countries? Will the right hon. Gentleman particularly bear in mind that, in the present crisis in the Scottish timber industry in disposing of storm-blown timber, such a step would be an enormous help to the industry?
§ Mr. DarlingWe could well look at the suggestion in the second part of the hon. Member's supplementary question. As to the first part, we have no evidence that chipboard that is coming from Eastern European countries is, in fact, being dumped, in the technical sense, and we have asked the industry whether it can supply us with information that would prove that chipboard is being dumped.