Price Increases (Hansard, 27 July 1967)

§ Mr. Frederick Lee

Not all the discussions with industry on this are yet com-220W pleted. Arrangements, are however, now in force for the appropriate Government Department to be given early warning of proposed price increases by manufacturers of the following goods and by suppliers of the following services:

Bread.	Polyvinyl chloride.
Flour.	Rubber footwear.
Biscuits.	Tyres.
Cakes.	Household soaps and detergents.
Breakfast cereals.
Sausages.	Acetylene and oxygen.
Meat pies.	Coastal shipping rates (freight and passenger).
Canned fruit.
Canned vegetables.
Jams and marmalade.	Glass.
Margarines and cooking fats.	Secondary batteries.
	Contractors' Plant.
Milk products (including condensed milk).	Agricultural machinery.
Pickles and sauces.	Tractors.
Processed vegetables.	Commercial vehicles.
Quick-frozen foods.	Motor cars.
Ice-cream.	Bicycles and motorcycles.
Soft drinks.
Chocolate and sugar confectionery.	Radio and electronic components.
Soups.	Radio and television valves and television cathode ray tubes.
Table jellies.
Tea.
Processed coffee.
Manufactured pet foods.	Copper cylinders and boilers.
Animal feeding stuffs.	Galvanised steel cisterns and tanks.
Beer.
Cider and perry.	Woven wire gauze.
Wines and spirits.	Fertilisers (nitrogenous).
Domestic refrigerators (electric).	Glass jars and bottles.
Gas cookers.	Insurance premiums.
Electric cookers.	Man-made staple fibre and filament yarn.
Washing machines.
Vacuum Cleaners.	Sewing thread.
Gas fires	Building and decorative paints.
Electric storage heaters.	Glazed floor tiles.
Domestic boilers.	Ceramic sanitaryware.
Domestic water-heaters.	Petrol.
	Derv.
Electric lamps—coil and fluorescent.	Fuel oils.
	Bottled gas.
Cash registers.	Coal.
Office photocopying machines.	Coke.
	Manufactured fuel.
Typewriters	Gas.
Domestic sewing machines.	Electricity.
	Rail fares (countrywide changes outside London Passenger Transport Area).
Industrial sewing machines.
Chain link fencing.
Domestic electric power tools and their attachments.	Rail freight charges (published scales for parcels and sun-dries and other country-wide changes).
Electric motors.
Primary cells and primary batteries.
Paper and board.
Wallpaper.	British Road Services charges (published scale for parcels).
National daily and Sunday newspapers.
Polyethylene.

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In addition, arrangements have been made to keep under review the trend of manufacturers' prices of the following goods:

Carpets, mats and matting.	Clothing.
	General chemicals.
Cotton and man-made fibre spun yarns.	Hosiery and knitwear.
	Leather.
Footwear (other than rubber).	Building blocks.
	Sand and gravel.
Electric power cables.	Clay pipes.
Wool yarns for weaving and hosiery.	Ready mixed concrete.
Knitting wool.

The arrangements for keeping under constant watch the prices of certain foodstuffs now cover the following items:

Carcase meat and offal	Lard, cooking and edible oils.
Bacon and ham.	Fish.
Poultry (including broilers.)	Sugar.
	Cheese.
Eggs.	Butter.
Fresh vegetables (including potatoes).	Cream.
	Fresh fruit.