Government Securities

HC Deb 20 October 1949 vol 468 c53W

65. Mr. Osborne

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, in view of the fall in the value of Government securities, namely, 2½ per cent. Treasury stock issued in October, 1946, at par and now standing around 70 per cent. he proposes to reintroduce the 1939 system of minimum prices for Government securities.

Mr. Glenvil Hall

No.