§ Sir H. Morris-Jonesasked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether he will set up a committee, on the lines of the Committee on Hydro-Electric Development in Scotland, to consider forthwith analogous development in North. Wales, where there are large undeveloped water-power resources, and where at present the agricultural community is largely deprived of electric power?
Major Lloyd GeorgeThe water-power resources of North Wales, which are very much smaller than those of the North of Scotland, formed the subject of an investigation in 1921 by the Water-Power Resources Committee of the Board of Trade. Since then, they have been substantially developed as part of a grid area scheme, which ensures that the electricity requirements of North Wales, so far as they cannot be met from the water-power resources, are provided for from other sources of supply. In view of these developments I cannot agree that the undeveloped water-power resources of North Wales are great enough to warrant further investigation, at any rate at the present time.