§ Mr. Parkinasked the Minister of Supply if he will make a statement on the progress of the review of controls exercised by his Department.
§ Mr. G. R. StraussOn 22nd July, I told the House that I had approved proposals to withdraw statutory control over the manufacture and supply of typewriters, office machinery and hand tools. I have now approved further proposals to revoke the Wireless Receivers and Radiogramophones (No. 1) Order, 1947, and to release from statutory control most of the products controlled by the Machinery, Plant and Appliances (General) Orders, 1945–46. These orders in effect require manufacturers of certain products to obtain licences for the manufacture and supply of those products. I am removing the statutory control in the assurance that the industries concerned will, without the operation of a licensing system, continue to comply with Government policy on the distribution of their output between the home and export markets.
The products controlled by the Machinery, Plant and Appliances Orders which I am removing from statutory control are:—
Bottling and capping machinery; cocoa and confectionery machinery; bakery, milk processing and all other food making and processing machinery; all types of Textile machinery, including hosiery machinery (but excluding carding and card clothing); machinery for making soap and other toilet preparations; machinery for filling and closing containers; packing machinery; paper making and working machinery; printing and book-binding machinery; tobacco and cigarette machinery; bottle washing machinery; brushmaking machinery; pottery machinery; embossing machinery; emulsifying machinery; filtration plant; glass-making and working machinery; labelling machinery; brewing, mineral water making, and wine and spirit making machinery; tabletting machinery, machinery for working plastics; typesetting machinery; electroplating machinery; machinery for making feeding stuffs for livestock; drying machinery; steam generating plant; stereotyping and electrotyping machinery; abattoir and bacon factory plant; rubber working machinery; mining and quarrying plant; carpet cleaning machinery; cellulose film making machinery; machinery for making briquetted fuels; candle making machinery; machinery for making driving belts; electric lamp making machinery; paint making machinery; trunk making machinery; water distillation plant; leatherworking machinery; 131W degreasing plant; centrifugal separating machinery; metal safes; weighing apparatus; electrical machinery and plant; garment making and cloth cutting machinery; sewing machinery; industrial suction or pressure cleaning apparatus; furnaces; accumulators; conveyors and elevators; foundry plant; industrial trucks; water heating apparatus; apparatus for the projection of still pictures.