§ 41. Mr. Pardoeasked the Minister of Technology what is the value of all development grants given by his Department per 1,000 of the population in the South-Western Development Area since 1964; and what is the equivalent figure for all other development areas taken together.
§ Mr. VarleyThe following is the table:
that the protection of the proposed tariff on imported textiles will be nullified by the drop in costs of overseas production, due to the collapse of the black market in quotas; and what steps he proposes to take to remedy this situation.
§ Dr. Ernest A. DaviesThe Textile Council was well aware of the point the hon. Member had in mind. Nonetheless it was confident that a decision to replace the quotas on cotton textiles by a tariff on imports from the Commonwealth would encourage the industry to reduce its costs to such an extent that the tariff would be more effective than the quotas in limiting imports into this countrty.