§ Mr. Bossomasked the Minister of Supply if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a complete list up to the most recent date available of articles or materials handled by his Department whose price has been increased since the pound was devalued.
§ Mr. G. R. StraussSince 18th September the selling prices of the following materials, sold by the Ministry of Supply to users in the United Kingdom, have been increased: copper, lead, zinc, tin, aluminium, Philippine chrome. Maximum controlled prices of the following products have also been increased: mild steel wire and wire products, stitching wire, brake cable and fine steel strand, special patented wire, patented steel roping wire, locked coil ropes, wire ropes made from galvanised roping wire, scaffold lashings, chain link fencing, gas list screwed and socketed tubes and tubulars, commercial quality hot finished seamless tubes (gas list sizes), wire netting, alloy steels (billets and bars and wire rods), stainless steel, galvanised sheets, terneplate, railway coil springs, laminated railway springs, gun billets, re-rolled products (extra charge for wide flats over 41 per cent. C.), bright drawn carbon42W flats (minor adjustments), wire nails, merchants' consolidated price schedule (minor adjustments to extras for cutting sheets), alloy and stainless tubes, forging ingots (alloy qualities), shell steel (alloy qualities), forgings (alloy qualities), wood screws, alloy steel bolts (to Admiralty Schedule 92A), alloy steel studs, socket set and cap screws.