§ 11. Mr. Laneasked the Minister of Power whether he will arrange for the issue each year of a Green Paper containing commercial and financial forecasts, investment plans, and other relevant information about the nationalised fuel industries.
§ Mr. MasonI shall keep in mind this proposal, which has been made in slightly different form by the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries, but I would remind the hon. Member that a great deal of information is already published by the Government and the industries.
§ Mr. LaneI appreciate that, but will not the right hon. Gentleman agree that discussion on fuel matters in the House and elsewhere would be better informed and more up to date if he could produce annually some sort of comprehensive and forward-looking document covering the whole field?
§ Mr. MasonI wonder how much information the hon. Gentleman and the House really want. While we have been in office, we seem to have flooded the House with information. Since the Select Committees were established, particularly the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries which examined the possibility of a Minister of nationalised industries, there have been 47 papers submitted to that Committee, and 11 from my Ministry alone.