§ Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMSasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department (1) what control the management of the British Empire Exhibition are able to exercise over the catering arrangements in the hands of Messrs Lyons; whether he will consider the propriety of having a representative of the exhibition management in each restaurant to receive the complaints of visitors, and a policeman at the door of each to control the unseemly quarrels which now take place; and what, if any, proportion of the waiters are British born and how many possess a fair working knowledge of the English language?
(2) Whether his attention has been called to the fact that at one of the restaurants at the British Empire Exhibition run by Messrs. Lyons and Company, in the exercise of their monopoly, the prices are as follows: tea 7s. 6d., dinner 25s., cocktail 2s. 6d.; and if he will take immediate steps to have these prices reduced to a level which will not bring disrepute to the exhibition in the eyes of the visitors, who include many thousands from the Colonies?
§ Mr. LUNNI am in communication with the British Empire Exhibition authorities, and should be very glad if the hon. Member could see his way to repeat these questions in a week's time.