§ 114. Mr. Barnesasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what consideration is being given by his Central Policy Review Staff to the effect of competition in stabilising prices.
§ Mr. RidleyNone. The facts are already well demonstrated. During the last five and a half years of the last Conservative Government, when competition was the sole arbiter of price, prices rose at less than half the rate they did under the interventionist policy of the Labour Government.