asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is aware that the wages of the brewery workers in different parts of the country are being reduced by five and six shillings a week; and whether, in the arrangement he made with the brewers for the reduction of the Beer Duty, he stipulated that the brewers should not pass on to the brewery workers and the consumers a part or the whole of the 4s. per barrel they are intended to bear?

The answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. As regards the last part of the question, I have nothing to add to the statements that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has already made on the reduction of the Beer Duty.

Am I to understand from that reply that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is not aware of the fact that wages have been reduced all over the country?

I have already said that he is not aware of that fact.

Then he ought to be.