HC Deb 30 July 1975 vol 896 cc541-2W
Mr. Atkinson

asked the Secretary et State for Prices and Consumer Protection if she will add to the Price Commission staff a specialist, highly-trained team of cost analysts capable of investigating cost analysis; and if she will set up a cost analysis body for the purpose of making more effective the idea of price planning and resource allocation by other than the free market system.

Mrs. Shirley Williams

Within its financial ceiling the Price Commission is responsible for its own detailed staffing matters. It has not suggested to me that further resources on these lines are neces- sary to discharge its statutory responsibilities.