§ 3. Mr. Errollasked the President of the Board of Trade how he intends to remove the discrimination against imported Canadian Purchase-Tax-paying rubber footwear caused by the bringing of identical and similar British made footwear into the tax-free utility scheme.
Mr. H. WilsonI would refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave to his Question about this matter on 30th November. My consultations with my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, are continuing, and we are hopeful of finding a satisfactory solution to the problem before long. I am not, however, in a position to say when our examination will have advanced sufficiently to enable anything further to be said.