§ Mr. Secretary Nott, supported by Mr. Secretary Joseph, Mr. Peter Walker, Mr. Secretary Howell, Mr. John Biffen, Mr. Norman Fowler and Mrs. Sally Oppenheim, presented a Bill to abolish the Price Commission; to make provision for the control of anti-competitive practices in the supply and acquisition of goods and the supply and securing of 685 services; to provide for references of certain public bodies and other bodies corporate to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission; to provide for the investigation of prices and charges by the Director General of Fair Trading; to repeal the remaining provisions of the Counter-Inflation Act 1973, and for purposes connected therewith: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 13 July and to be printed [Bill 40].