HC Deb 30 July 1951 vol 491 cc150-1W
Mr. J. Hall

asked the President of the Board of Trade on which of the goods exempted from Purchase Tax in the Finance Bill and not already subject to price control, is it proposed to impose such control.

Sir H. Shawcross

I would refer my hon. Friend to the answers given to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) and to my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith, South (Mr. W. T. Williams), on 5th April and 6th June, respectively, which listed the classes of goods over which it is intended to re-introduce price control either on a statutory or a voluntary basis.

The goods from which Purchase Tax has been removed included in these lists are: toilet paper, kitchen scales, shields and stands for smoothing or pressing irons, steel wool, metal pot scourers, dusters, floorcloths and scouring cloths, laces for fastening garments or footwear, coal or cinder sieves and sifters and (in so far as they are not price controlled

CIVIL SERVANTS WITH POWERS OF ENTRY (JUNE, 1951)
(The figures shown in Column (2) are included in Column (3))
Government Department Number of officials who have powers to enter private houses used exclusively as such Number of officials who have powers to enter land, business premises or private houses either used exclusively as such or partly as business premises
(1) (2) (3)
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries … — 2,551
Ministry of Civil Aviation … 19 48
Customs and Excise … — 1,800
Ministry of Education … — 574
Ministry of Food … — 670
Forestry Commission … — 111
Ministry of Fuel and Power … — 229
Ministry of Health … 19 134
Home Office … 71 86
Inland Revenue … 4,913 4,913
Ministry of Labour … — 2198
Ministry of Local Government, and Planning … — 8
Ministry of National Insurance … — 1,005
Ordnance Survey … — 1,975
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research … — 95
Tithe Redemption Commission … … — 143
Board of Trade … — 179
Ministry of Transport … — 934
War Damage Commission and Central Land Board … 966 966
Department of Agriculture for Scotland … — 378
Scottish Education Department … — 116
Department of Health for Scotland … — 19
Scottish Home Department … — 63
TOTAL … 5,988 19,195