§ 16. Sir R. THOMASasked the President of the Board of Education what progress is being made by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in the development of a method of low-temperature carbonisation of coal which will provide a Home source of fuel oil and allow the production commercially of a smokeless fuel for domestic grates?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Lord Eustace Percy)As the hon. Member will readily understand, it is not possible within the limits of an answer to a question to give any adequate 549 account of an industrial process. I would, however, refer him to the statement made in this House by the Parliamentary Secretary on 11th May, and to the Report of the Fuel Research Board published a few days ago by the Stationery Office. I think he will gather from these two sources all the information that he desires.