§ 76. Mr. Parkinasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will issue as a White 185W Paper a statement of our export commitments under all the bilateral trade agreements of capital equipment under detailed headings with approximate delivery dates, with the known requirements under the same headings of colonial development schemes approved to date and those for the re-equipment of our industries at home, with the output from present British capacity over the most convenient recent period; and an approximate statement of the present output, the export commitments and the requirements to maintain present home civilian consumption of the principal consumer goods of which there is a shortage.
§ Sir S. CrippsNo. Commitments for the export of specific capital goods under bilateral trade agreements are extremely limited and comparable information under detailed headings with approximate delivery dates in respect of colonial and home investment is not available. Certain aspects of this problem have, however, already been dealt with in a general way in the White Paper on Capital Investment in 1948.