§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in view of the steps being taken by Imperial Chemical Industries and the Gas Council to collaborate in the production of SMG from oil, whether it is the intention of the Government to sell any part of the gas produced from any economic process on the world market and to develop an export trade for British gas to the United States of America.
§ Mr. EmeryExploitation of their process would be a matter for the Gas Council and ICI. It is as yet too early to see how large overseas demands for processes to make substitute natural gas will be; however I see little prospect of the gas rather than the process being exported.