§ 26. Mr. Bryanasked the Postmaster-General if he will set up a committee representative of all appropriate interests to review the present system by which radio frequencies are allocated.
§ Mr. MasonMy Frequency Advisory Committee and Mobile Radio Committee, which advise me on frequency questions, are widely representative and already provide a forum in which possible changes in procedure could be considered.
§ Mr. BryanSince the General Post Office and Defence and other Government Departments are among the main users of frequencies, would it not be wiser, and certainly fairer, if allocation of frequencies were put into some independent hands, as is done in the United States of America?
§ Mr. MasonI do not see the reason for that suggestion. The hon. Member's Administration set up two Committees —one in 1954, the Mobile Radio Committee, and one in 1958, the Frequency Advisory Committee—to advise the 424 Postmaster-General of the day on what should be done, but no one has expressed concern so far.