§ Mr. McLeavyasked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he will instruct local fuel overseers to present to the local government authorities concerned a monthly report of the proceedings of the Fuel Control Advisory Committee; and if he will give instructions to overseers to review annually the registration for domestic coal, with a view to ensuring that adjustments are made in the district allocation of coal arising from the increase or decrease in registration.
§ Mr. ShinwellBearing in mind that the local fuel overseers are officials of the local authorities, I do not think that the reports suggested by my hon. Friend are needed. With regard to the second part of the Question, half-yearly returns of the numbers of registrations in each district are already obtained from local fuel overseers as a basis for the allocation of supplies of domestic coal.