HC Deb 11 November 1941 vol 374 cc2082-3W
Sir E. Graham-Little

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what contracts he has with each of the following companies; Macleans, Limited, the County Perfumery Company, Limited, Veno Drug Company, Limited, and Pritchard and Constance, Limited; whether any other firms were invited to tender for these contracts before their completion; and what has been the annual expenditure during the past three years in respect of these contracts?

Captain Crookshank

No Government Department has a contract with any of these companies for the supply of their proprietary articles. Some of them have contracts for the manufacture of articles required for war purposes to the specification of the Government, but it would not be in the public interest to disclose the precise articles manufactured or the amounts of the contracts.