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Restrictive Practices (Report)

Volume 476: debated on Tuesday 20 June 1950

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asked the Minister of Labour why he has not yet made available the Report of the National Joint Advisory Committee on Restrictive Practices, in view of the fact that this Report was ready for presentation on 30th March.

My right hon. Friend regrets that through inadvertence his reply to the hon. Member's supplementary question of 30th March incorrectly stated the position. In fact the matter was still under the consideration of the parties and that is the present position.

Having regard to the delay of more than seven months since the Minister first promised to obtain t port, does he not now think that it would be a good thing to accede to the suggestion I made on 30th March that there should be an independent inquiry into this matter?

Is not this a matter which is not taken with sufficient seriousness by the hon. Gentleman? He first misleads the House and then says that he is not going to do anything about it.

I do not accept the word "mislead" in that connection. It is true that my right hon. Friend tried to give information to the House in a supplementary answer, and neither he nor, I think, any other hon. Member would claim infallibility.