Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 January 1959.
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he has considered the correspondence sent to him by the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South, dealing with the treatment of the Staffordshire Potteries Water Board by firms who submitted identical tenders for the supply of cast iron pipes; and, in view of the frustration thereby caused to the Water Board in the discharge of its financial responsibilities, if he will reconsider his previous decision and instruct the Registrar of Restrictive Trading Agreements to give this matter priority before the Restrictive Practices Court.