§ Mr. SEDDONasked the Prime Minister whether, seeing that in August last a Select Committee was appointed to inquire into high prices and profits, and has held several sittings at which evidence was tendered in support of the Food Ministry, that a number of persons then offered to give evidence showing that the existing system of food control, instead of lowering prices, had tended greatly to their increase, but that the chairman had replied in a letter dated 19th November to an inquiry by the National Food Vigilance Committee that the Committee is not at present sitting, he will, in view of allega- 676W tions of maladministration on the part of the Ministry, arrange that this Committee, with or without additions, as considered desirable, shall continue their sittings and examine the question as to the desirability or otherwise of continuing the existing system of food control?
§ THE PRIME MINISTERThe Government do not consider it necessary at present to pursue the course suggested in the question.