asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what action his Department has taken to deal with increase in rentals for televisions and other goods by Henry Wigfall and Son Ltd. when the imposition of these increases has overridden the hirers' contractual rights.

My Department has been in touch with the company which has agreed to make full restitution to these customers by cancelling the increases and crediting them with the amounts which they have overpaid.