§ 45. Captain CROOKSHANKasked the Prime Minister if he can now make any statement with regard to the Coast Protection Bill?
Mr. SNOWDENI would refer the hon. and gallant Member to what my right hon. Friend has already said in reply to questions on this subject, there being no change in the situation.
§ Captain CROOKSHANKBut is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that time is getting on, that it is four months since the Second Reading? Cannot we be told what is going to happen?
§ Viscount ELMLEYIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that thousands of local authorities throughout the country would be very glad to see this Bill die a natural death?
Mr. SNOWDENAll those points were dealt with in replies to previous questions, and, as I have said, my right hon. Friend has nothing to add to what was said on those occasions.