HC Deb 12 March 1951 vol 485 c122W
104. Mr. Watkinson

asked the President of the Board of Trade the number of machine tools ordered by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or satellite countries for which permission to export has been refused.

Mr. Bottomley

Since the imposition of export control on all metal working machine tools on 6th October, 1950, the number, up to the end of February, 1951, was 128.