RATES OF EXCHANGE.

HC Deb 03 October 1939 vol 351 cc1847-8W

Colonel Wedgwood

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is upon Treasury advice that the British Press is asked to omit any mention of the rate of exchange between the £ and the dollar on neutral exchanges?

Sir J. Simon

The rate of exchange between the £ and the dollar in New York is quoted daily in the British Press, and no advice of the kind referred to has been given to the British Press by the Treasury.