HC Deb 30 January 1964 vol 688 cc78-9W
32. Sir J. Eden

asked the Secretary of State for Industry, Trade and Regional Development what are, or were, the business interests of the members of the Consumer Council; and to what extent it represents the views of small shopkeepers.

Mr. D. Price

I am circulating in the OFFICIAL RE PORT a list of the members of the Consumer Council, showing their main business and other interests. As my hon. Friend said in reply to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Knutsford (Sir W. Bramley-Davenport) on 23rd January, the members serve, not as representing any particular interests or views, but in a personal capacity as a group of individuals who can speak for the consumer interest.

THE CONSUMER COUNCIL

Membership

Chairman

Baroness Elliot of Harwood, D.B.E.—Various Government Committees. County Councillor. Agricultural interests.

Director

Miss Elizabeth Ackroyd—Seconded Civil Servant (Under Secretary, Board of Trade).

Members

Mrs. Cecil Calvert—Housewife (widow of eminent surgeon in Belfast). Downpatrick Hospital Management Committee.

Mr. Leonard Cohen—Joint Managing Director of Henry's Stores Ltd. Council of Retail Distributors' Association; Manchester Education Committee.

Mr. Aubrey L. Diamond—Chairman of National Federation of Consumer Groups. Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics. Solicitor. Committee of Advertising Inquiry Council Ltd.

Mr. A. Frederick Earle—Managing Director of Hoover Ltd. Economist.

Mrs. Winifred Jenkins—Chairman of Women's Advisory Committee of British Standards Institution. British Electrical Approvals Board. President of East Barnet Valley Towns-Women's Guild.

Mr. T. Cynog Jones, O.B.E.—Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers. Council of Industrial Welfare Society.

Mr. W. Grigor McClelland—Research fellow in management studies, Balliol College, Oxford, Managing Director of Laws Stores Ltd. Council of Supermarket Association.

Mrs. Felicia Palmer—Housewife. Free-lance journalist.

Lord Peddie—Chairman of Co-operative Party. Director of various Co-operative Society companies. Vice-Chairman of independent Commission on Advertising under Lord Reith.

Mrs. Phillipa Perks—Housewife. W.V.S. Centre Organiser. Member of Bristol Y.W.C.A. Executive Committee.