§ Mr. Horabinasked the Minister of Supply whether the arrangement between His Majesty's Government and the British Metal Corporation for the importation and distribution of certain non-ferrous raw materials during the war permits that Corporation, by means of a subsidiary company wholly owned by it, to transact business for profit in the self-same materials for the supply and distribution of which it was embodied into the Ministry and is remunerated out of public funds.
§ Sir A. DuncanThe arrangement in question, while restricting business by the Corporation in this country, permitted a subsidiary company of the Corporation to carry on the business of selling abroad metals and materials which were purchased abroad, subject to their giving to His Majesty's Government first refusal of any material they had for disposal.