§ 64. Mr. Evelyn Kingasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will issue a general direction to the gas board and other nationalised industries for which his Department is responsible, that, when prices are increased, they should in no circumstances be more than doubled.
§ Sir J. EdenNo. The chairmen of the nationalised industries have agreed to match the performance of the private 15W sector members of the C.B.I. by accepting the same restraint on prices on the same conditions.