§ Mr. FINNEYasked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to resolutions of municipal councils expressing the utmost concern at the steadily rising price of motor fuel, and urgently representing to His Majesty's Government the danger to the community arising therefrom, and requesting that immediate steps may be taken to secure the production and distribution of power alcohol within the Empire under the immediate supervision and control of the Government, and to ensure that the coal consumed in this country shall be so treated before use as to extract all the possible available motor spirit; and whether he can indicate the Government's intentions respecting the same?
§ Sir R. HORNEI would refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave today to the hon. Member for Plaistow (Mr. W. Thome), a copy of which, and of the Memorandum referred to, I am sending him.