§ Mr. Henderson Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland in view of the criticisms made of the Tummel and Garry scheme, if he will now adopt the suggestion made during the Committee stage of the 1943 Bill, that the Hydro-Electric Board be required to prepare a series of projects in the next scheme presented to. Parliament, covering, say, a five or seven year period of operations, so that Parliament and the country may be able to balance one project against another and regard the operations of the board over a wide area instead of any single limited area.
§ Mr. BuchananParticulars of the projects which the Board have under consideration were given in the reply to a question by the hon. and gallant Member for Orkney and Shetland (Sir B. Neven-Spence) on the 30th October last. Legislation would be required to give effect to the hon. Member's suggestion, which was considered and rejected when the Hydro-Electric Development (Scotland) Bill was before Parliament in 1943. I do not think that it would, in any case, be appropriate or convenient to include in a single constructional scheme a series of major projects which may raise quite dissimilar issues.