Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 26 July 1951.
Whilst thanking the President of the Board of Trade for that fair answer, may I ask him if it is not a fact that utility prices could have been lower if the Government monopoly in wool had not made a profit of £13,500,000 in the last 12 months and the Government monopoly in cotton had not made a profit of £9,500,000 in the previous 18 months?