§ Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is aware of the successful competition of Japan and Germany with the British shipbuilding and 204W ship repairing industries, and that the success of foreign nations in these spheres is due largely to high British taxation, and that this has a prejudicial effect on other related British industries and increases the danger of large-scale unemployment in Great Britain; and what measures he is considering for the purpose of avoiding these national dangers.
§ Mr. MaudlingThere are reasonable prospects for a growth of output from British yards: and I do not regard the shipyards as specially handicapped by the general level of our taxation.