Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 11 Chwefror 1947.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, in view of the fact that the Co-operative Wholesale Bank is competing for the accounts of municipalities, he will take steps to ensure that its banking activities are entirely separated from its trading activities.
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has yet received any response from the Co-operative Wholesale Society to his request that the society's bank should reduce its interest rates; and what action he is taking on this matter.
asked the Chancellor of the. Exchequer why the Co-operative Wholesale Society Bank is not called upon to take a quota of Treasury deposit receipts in the same way as the clearing banks; and if he will take steps to alter this practice.
For the present, I have nothing to add to my reply to the hon. and gallant Member for Blackpool, South (Wing-Commander Robinson) on 28th January.