HC Deb 10 February 1975 vol 886 c58W
14. Mr. Cormack

asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if she can now say when she intends to establish the National Consumer Agency.

Mr. Alan Williams

I shall set up the council as soon as possible, and the necessary Supplementary Estimate will be presented to Parliament in due course. My right hon. Friend announced on 29th January that Mr. Michael Young would be the first chairman of the council, in reply to a Question from my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East (Mr. Thomas).