CONTINUANCE OF CONTROLS
POLICY IN BRITAIN EXPLAINED
(*Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 9. The Minister for Town and Country Planning (Mr Hugh Dalton) explaining in the House of Commons >|he Government’s plans for continuing controls, said the new measure would seek to make permanent price controls, rationing of necessities of life, and. if need be. materials, building licences, and controls over the export and import trade. The bill would not contain provivions for the direction of labour, neither would it deal with exchange control or the control of capital issues, as these powers already existed in permanent form.
Mr Dalton said the Government objected to the Conservatives’ plan for annual review of control powers, because it would give too much power to the House of Lords. “We did not, in the last Parliament, clip the wings of the House of Lords in order to put back into its claws an annual veto on this most essential part of our policy.’’ he said. He added that Parliamentary safeguards would include the power of review by the House of Commons, but not necessarily the House of Lords.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26266, 10 November 1950, Page 7
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