§ 18. Mr. E. HARMSWORTHasked the Secretary for Mines whether, at the end of the financial control of the coal industry, it is the intention of the Government to subsidise unprofitable collieries or allow them to lapse?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI think it is better that I should not attempt to anticipate the statement which, as I said in my 1395 reply on 21st February to the hon. and gallant Member for Dulwich (Sir F. Hall), I hope shortly to be in a position to make on the subject of financial decontrol of the coal industry.
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI do not quite know who controls me, except the Board of Trade.