§ 42. Mr. PETHERICKasked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the fact that a considerable proportion of foreign motor coasters engaging in the inter-port trade of the United Kingdom are carrying stone, granite, cement and other materials for road-making, public works and housing schemes of local authorities; and whether he can state the number of local authorities that now stipulate in their forms of tender that where materials intended for their use are carried coastwise they shall be carried only in ships of British nationality?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Mr. Shakespeare)The reply to both parts of the question is in the negative. My right hon. Friend will, however, he glad to consider any information which my hon. Friend may wish to submit to him in this connection.