Mr. Tebbittasked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection which matters concerning the prices of the goods and services of nationalised industries are within the concern of her Department.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsMy responsibilities are as described by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) on 28th March.—[Vol. 871, c. 178.]. The existence of my Department involves no change in the responsibilities of my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Energy, Environment, Industry, Scotland and Trade in relation to the nationalised industries or their prices.