§ 39. Sir W. Wakefieldasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation the limiting factors in pushing ahead with the road programme, in view of the fact that earth-moving equipment and the men to operate it are available.
§ Mr. WatkinsonThe broad level of the road programme is set by the general economic resources, but the most immediate limiting factor is unsuitable weather.
§ Sir W. WakefieldLabour, equipment and materials are presumably all readily available. If that is so, is it not possible for the labour and the equipment which at present are idle and the materials which are available to be translated into money terms and used?
§ Mr. WatkinsonWe are going forward as fast as the general economic resources will allow us.