HC Deb 25 March 1936 vol 310 c1225
60 and 61. Mr. GARDNER

asked the Home Secretary (1) whether, in view of a possible national emergency, he is giving any special attention to the dangers likely to arise from the present methods of storing petrol in bulk;

(2) whether, in view of a possible national emergency, he will consider making regulations forbidding the storage of white spirit and other inflammable spirit in tanks above ground?

Mr. LLOYD

The question of the protection of stores of oil under the conditions of national emergency is receiving the Government's attention. I am not, however, at present in a position to make any statement on the measures which will be recommended.