§ Major Lyonsasked the President of the Board of Trade the number of sittings to date of the Committee on Retail Shopkeepers; whether the inquiries have yet been completed; whether he has yet received any report, or when he expects so to do; and whether all or any of the sittings have been in public?
§ Sir A. DuncanThe Retail Trade Committee have up to date held 12 meetings and there have been 13 meetings of the various Sub-committees: none of them was held in public. I received an Interim Report from the Committee last week. The Committee have not completed the inquiries necessitated by their wide terms of reference.