Skip to main content

Price Commission (Referrals)

Volume 928: debated on Tuesday 22 March 1977

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if he will list in the Official Report all the commodity and product pricings he has referred to the Price Commission for special investigation during the last six months; and what has been the result of each investigation.

The subjects referred to the Price Commission during this period are: prices of and margins on prescribed school clothing; prices, costs and margins in the importation, processing and distribution of coffee; prices and margins in the manufacture and distribution of beer sold by retail for consumption on licensed premises.The studies are still in progress.