§ 72. Mr. Medlicottasked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether before the 100 German submarines were sunk by the Admiralty in 1946, any consideration was given by his Department to the possibility of using these submarines to generate electricity at appropriate ports and seaside towns in Great Britain.
§ Mr. MedlicottWas no consideration given at all to the possibility of these valuable generating plants being used in crisis such as this?
§ Mr. ShinwellI must inform the hon. Member that, under the Potsdam Agreement, these submarines should have been destroyed in February of last year.
§ Mr. BeechmanIs any effort being made to use submarines for this purpose?
§ Mr. ShinwellAn effort has been made quite successfully.
§ Mr. BossomHave the submarines been destroyed?
§ Mr. ShinwellI cannot say, but the Agreement was that they should be.
§ Mr. MedlicottWould it not have been possible, within the limits of the Agreement, to have taken the generating plant away before the submarines were sunk?