§ Mr. J. Morrisasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will instruct the firm of Richard Thomas and Baldwins, through the Iron and Steel Holding and Realisation Agency, to abandon the restrictive arrangements to which the privately owned firms in the steel industry are parties, so that they may be free to compete more effectively with imports of steel products into the United Kingdom which are a burden on the gold and foreign currency reserves.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterNo. The Restrictive Practices Court will in April be considering an important and typical case of the arrangements to which the Question refers. It will be for the Court to determine whether the arrangements are contrary to the public interest.