HC Deb 03 April 1974 vol 871 c1282

Mrs. Secretary Williams, supported by Mr. Secretary Foot, Mr. Secretary Benn, Mr. Secretary Ross, Mr. Secretary Shore, Mr. Secretary Rees, Mr. Secretary John Morris, Mr. Fred Peart, Mr. Edmund Dell, Mr. Alan Williams, and Mr. Robert Maclennan, presented (under Standing Order No. 91 (Procedure upon Bills whose main object is to create a charge upon the public revenue)) a Bill to authorise the payment of food subsidies; to confer on the Secretary of State power to regulate the price of food and certain other goods and on the Price Commission additional powers for preventing or restricting increases in prices and charges; to make provision for requiring prices to be indicated on or in relation to goods offered or exposed for sale by retail; to confer power to abolish the Pay Board; and for purposes connected with those matters; And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time tomorrow and to be printed. [Bill 15.]

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