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64.
Sir G. Harvie-Watt
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the changed economic circumstances and the hardship caused in many families he has considered the reduction from: seven years of the age at which savings certificates held by young children can be repaid, or whether he will alter the conditions under which repayment can be claimed by parents of such.
Mr. Gaitskell
I am arranging for the whole question of these restrictions on the withdrawal of savings held in the names of young children—which have existed for the past 100 years or so—to be examined afresh.