asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the expressed desire of His Majesty's Government to arrange for the wider distribution of news-films, he will consider the desirability of setting up an inquiry into the adequacy of present production arrangements of the British news-reel film companies; and also arrange for an inquiry to be made into the desirability of removing all existing restrictions which are imposed by those companies on the distribution of their films?

I see no reason to call in question the arrangements made by the existing companies for the production of newsreel films, and I have no power to intervene in their arrangements for distribution.