§ Mr. Cobbasked the President of the Board of Trade when the report of the Central Price Regulation Committee into the price of radio valves will be published; and what action will be taken as a result of the report.
§ Sir S. CrippsThe report is being published today as a non-Parliamentary publication. The findings, as the hon. Member will observe when he sees them. do not disclose a case for special action to control the price of radio valves at the present time. The prices of valves will, however, be kept under review. The question of a further inquiry, which would have regard to the effects and the desirability, from the point of view of the public interest, of the practice of maintaining by agreement higher prices for valves for replacement than for valves sold to set makers will be considered when the conditions affecting the industry become more normal.