HC Deb 30 July 1956 vol 557 c897

The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:

21. Mr. ANTHONY GREENWOOD

To ask the Minister of Fuel and Power, why it was decided to build a nuclear power station at Bradwell, Essex, rather than at Holywell Point, which Central Electricity Authority witnesses at the public inquiry admitted to be a suitable site, and which is a site free from many of the objections that have been made to the Bradwell site.

Mr. Speaker

Mr. Anthony Greenwood.

Mr. Snow

As my hon. Friend is not here, and notwithstanding your previous Rulings, Mr. Speaker, that Questions which are not asked are the responsibility of the Member who is absent, I wonder whether, in the case of Question No. 21, you could make an exception, in view of the scandalous conduct of the public inquiry in question?

Mr. Speaker

If the hon. Member is not here to ask his Question, I cannot help that.