§ 36. Mr. Pavittasked the Attorney-General what steps he proposes to take to secure the cut of 6 per cent. in conveyancing fees recommended by the National Board for Prices and Incomes and now rejected by the Statutory Committee established under the Solicitors Act.
§ The Attorney-GeneralThis recommendation will be reconsidered in the light of the next Report of the National Board for Prices and Incomes, which will clarify the recommendations referred to in the Question; in the light of the Monopolies Commission's Report on the Professions which reached the conclusion 243W that fixed scales of fees were unlikely to be in the public interest; and in the light of the reactions to that Report of the professions concerned who have been asked by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to let him know by May what modifications they propose in consequence of the guidance given in that Report.