§ Captain Pluggeasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, since the passage of the Finance Act, 1938, the motor car industry or any other trades concerned have taken advantage of the facilities given to them by that Act to apply to the Import Duties Advisory Committee for a variation in the protection which they receive against foreign competition?
§ Sir J. SimonIt is, I understand, the practice of the committee not to disclose what applications, if any, are before them in regard to any classes of goods until a stage is reached at which other interests besides those of the applicants require to be considered. It will be appreciated that this practice is followed in the interests of applicant industries themselves. When such a stage is reached the case is advertised. No advertisement has been issued by the committee in respect of any of the goods to which my hon. and gallant Friend refers.