§ 44. Mr. Nabarroasked the Paymaster-General what estimate he has made of increases in oil production from United Kingdom indigenous sources during 1957.
§ Mr. MaudlingProduction in 1957 is likely to be about the same as in 1956, a reduction in output by the shale industry being balanced by increases in the production of crude oil and the production of motor spirit from the low temperature carbonisation of coal.
§ Mr. NabarroCan my right hon. Friend say anything about the longer-term prospects, as it is, I should have thought, obvious that anything we can get from this source, however small, is worthy of Government support?
§ Mr. MaudlingThere is, I believe, a good deal of work on a small but expanding scale going on in the indigenous production of crude oil.