§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the fact that British apparatus for helping deaf persons is both better and cheaper than U.S. apparatus designed for the same purpose and, as the U.S. imports have to be paid for in dollars, he will restrict, in the present critical position of dollar scarcity, the import of U.S. apparatus which can be replaced by home products; and if he will state the value in dollars per year of U.S. aids at present imported.
§ Sir S. CrippsAs 1 informed the hon. and gallant Member for Down (Sir W. Smiles) on 28th January last, imports of hearing aids are confined to cases of special need which cannot be met from domestic production. The rate at which licences for such imports are being issued is about 37,800 dollars a year.