§ 51. Mr. AMMONasked the Postmaster-General whether he will reconsider the proposal to sell the wireless station at Abu Zabal, Egypt, to a private firm seeing that the plant has recently been improved at a considerable expenditure of public money, that since the improvements have been effected the station has shown signs of developing as a commercial asset, and that Government work is transmitted via Abu Zabal to Rhodesia, Iraq, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kualalumpur, and other British settlements in the East, and in view of the commercial possibilities and the strategic value of the station?
§ Viscount WOLMERThe reply is in the negative. The developments to which the hon. Member refers were taken into account when the decision was reached to sell the station.