§ 18. Mr. Fitchasked the Minister of Power if he will make a statement on the possibilities of extracting oil from coal as a commercial proposition.
§ Mr. FitchIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that this process has been carried out successfully on a commercial basis in South Africa? Is he further aware that the firm of John Brown, civil engineers, has a plant which it claims can do this process on a commercial basis? Will the right hon. Gentleman look into this?
§ Mr. WoodI certainly will. I observe at the moment only that I think that the conditions to which the hon. Gentleman is drawing our attention in South Africa are very different from the conditions that would obtain here.