§ Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyreasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in order to safeguard the proceeds of British exports for the purchase of vital imports, any measures are in force or contemplated to restrict the purchasing, respectively, by countries of the British Empire, other countries in the sterling bloc and countries outside the sterling bloc, of British goods with those sterling balances accumulated by them during the war.
§ Mr. DaltonI would refer to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, South (Mr. N. Smith) on 13th November (Volume 415, No. 37, Columns 1917–19).