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Mr. T. Price
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power what safeguards exist under his Regulations to protect the domestic consumer of coal against paying top-grade prices for inferior grades of fuel.
Mr. Joynson-Hicks
Under the Retail Coal Prices Order, 1941, maximum prices are fixed for each grade of coal sold to the domestic consumer and any merchant charging more than the appropriate maximum price is liable to prosecution.