Price Increases

HC Deb 17 May 1968 vol 764 cc296-7W

Mr. John Page

asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what is the official definition of an unnecessary price increase.

Mr. Hattersley

Price increases should take place only where justified under the criteria of Cmnd. 3590.

Mr. John Page

asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity in exercise of her responsibility for prices and incomes policy, if he will publish a list of applications for price increases, by product or item received by different Government Departments during the last 12 months stating whether these were approved or rejected.

Mr. Hattersley

No. Notifications of proposed increases in prices under the early warning arrangements are treated as confidential, as explained in paragraph 13 of Cmnd. 2808.