§ Mr. Milneasked the President of the Board of Trade when the committee of inquiry into advertising set up by his Department will issue its report; whether he expects to receive an interim report, and when; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. DellThe Board of Trade has not established a committee of inquiry; what it has proposed is to commission independent research into aspects of the economic effects of advertising. As my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary said in the debate on 29th November last, this is not a very easy subject; and it may be a considerable time before such research will yield results.—[Vol. 774, c. 991–1002.]