§ Mr. Granvilleasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will take steps to check the rising cost of living and in particular the prices of household commodities such as sheets, towels and domestic linen, which bear heavily upon the lower wage-earning sections of the community.
§ Mr. DaltonThe Government's policy is to stabilise the cost of living within the limits laid down by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget speech. In the execution of this policy I have made Orders controlling the prices of all important consumer goods falling within my responsibility. The bulk of household textile articles now being produced are utility goods, the prices of which are strictly controlled. There have been no material increases in these prices during the past two years.