§ Mr. Hector Hughesasked the President of the Board of Trade which trades unions and associations he consulted before setting up his committee to investigate and report on the shipbuilding industry, about the outstanding problems of finance and manning of ships in order to enable British shipbuilding and British shipping to compete on favourable terms with foreign shipping.
§ Mr. MasonThe purpose of the Shipbuilding Inquiry Committee is to establish how the shipbuilding industry can best become competitive in world markets, and the question of prior consultations about finance or manning of ships does not arise.