§ Mr. Milneasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will place in the Library a detailed account of the negotiations which took place between Her Majesty's Government and the soap and detergent firms which led to the recently announced price increases for their products.
§ Mr. DarlingNo. Details of negotiations with firms under the early warning arrangements are confidential. As I told my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, East (Mr. Robert Howarth) on the 4th March, the Board was satisfied that the increases were wholly attributable to increased costs of production flowing directly from devaluation.—[Vol. 760, c. 21.]