CO129-622-7 Department of Commerce and Industry- reorganisation and Annual Report 4-4-1949 - 20-2-1950 — Page 42

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SIR ALEXANDER GRANTHAM, K.C.M.G.,

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(10)

Thank you for your letter of 22nd

November, 1949, in which you gave us your

views on our suggestion that the time might

have come for the appointment of an Economic

Secretary. In the light of what you say, we

agree that it would be uneconomical to have

an Economic Secretary, or a Deputy Secretary

(Economics), in addition to the head of the

new Department of Commerce and Industry, who

should, as you suggest, be your adviser on

economic affairs.

With regard to the new Department of

Commerce and Industry, we were most interested

in the proposals for reorganisation contained

in Himsworth's memorandum, and should like to

have more information in this connection on

the following points:-

(a) what progress has been made with

the organisation of the new

Department on the basis of

Himsworth's recommendations;

(b) to what extent the Department of

Supplies, Trade and Industry will,

in fact, be absorbed into the

new Department (it appears that

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