The Price Fixers
For two-and-a-half years almost every price increase has had to be approved by the Price Commission - a band of 700 civil servants monitoring industry's profits up and down the country. But what has price control done to stem inflation? Does the Price Commission actually save the British housewife any money?
James Bellini and Alan Watson examine the company books and Industry's claim that price control has been a costly mistake. With BILL KERR ELLIOTT and JOHN SWINFIELD
Assistant editor PAUL ELLIS Editor JOHN DEKKER