§ 60 and 61. Mr. GARDNERasked 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. LLOYDThe 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.