Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 March 1947.
Mr Hugh Dalton
, Bishop Auckland
12:00,
11 March 1947
It means that the silver we are importing is used, in part, for silver goods that are used in this country, and, in part, for silver goods exported from this country. At the present time, we are gradually recovering silver from the coin age, but that is necessarily a very slow process and does not yield the amount of silver that is required for current industrial purposes, including the export trade.