Purchase Tax

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 April 1948.

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Photo of Mr Victor Collins Mr Victor Collins , Taunton 12:00, 22 April 1948

Is my right hon. Friend aware that this matter is a very urgent one, because some 50 per cent. or more of the people engaged in the basket industry are employed in the workshops of the blind, where there is a degree of unemployment of not less than 25 per cent.? Is he further aware that these people are completely non-mobile and that the matter is urgent and needs looking into now?