Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 November 1947.
Sir Waldron Smithers
, Orpington
12:00,
27 November 1947
Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that the loss must eventually fall on the taxpayer, and is all imported American coal being sold to the public and institutions' at less than cost price? Will he also ask his fellow Members on the front bench whether they ought not to be committed to the institution mentioned in the Question?
The first bench on either side of the House of Commons, reserved for ministers and leaders of the principal political parties.
