Captain BENNasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give particulars of the steps which are being taken to manufacture in this country articles protected by Part I of the Safeguarding of Industries Act which are at present only obtainable abroad?
§ Sir P. LLOYD-GREAMEApart from the activities of certain industrial research associations, such information on this subject as has come to the knowledge of the Board of Trade has been given confidentially by manufacturers engaged in, or intending to take up, particular lines of production; and I do not think it would be proper for me to make such information public.