§ 25. Sir J. POWERasked the Minister of Transport when the Electricity Board expect to commence the construction of the general inter-connection system?
§ Colonel ASHLEYI may remind my hon. Friend that under the provisions of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1926, the Central Electricity Board are not in a position to commence works in any area until a scheme has been adopted for that area, and that schemes can only 1995 be adopted after they have been received by the Board from the Electricity Commissioners and the Statutory procedure as to publication and consideration of objections has been carried out. In these circumstances, it is not yet possible to say at what date actual construction will begin.