Switch-selling (Advertisements)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 November 1960.

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Photo of Mr Francis Noel-Baker Mr Francis Noel-Baker , Swindon 12:00, 29 November 1960

asked the President of the Board of Trade what further measures he now proposes to adopt to ensure that where sewing machines, other electrical appliances and similar products, are advertised for sale to the general public adequate stocks of such merchandise are in fact available for sale at the price mentioned in the advertisement; and whether he has considered the evidence from the Retail Trading Standards Association sent to him by the Advertising Inquiry Committee that switch-selling continues to be considered by certain retailers as a permissible method of sales promotion.