§ Mr. Julian Critchleyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that substandard hot water bottles made in Czechoslovakia and imported by a firm, the name of which has been sent to him, are on sale in this country and that one of these bottles has burst, causing severe burns to the son of a constituent of the hon. Member for Aldershot; and if he will take steps to ban further imports of this product.
§ Mr. SharplesI have arranged for urgent inquiries to be made into this unfortunate accident, of which I have learned with regret. I shall write to my hon. Friend as soon as these inquiries have been completed.