§ Mr. T. WILLIAMSasked the Minister of Transport if he will postpone the coming into operation of the Order granted to the Yorkshire Electric Power Company to lay cables in the district of Tickhill pending the settlement of a dispute between the power company and the local authority; and whether, as the Order does not specify distinctly the places where the cables are to be laid underground or overground, he will have this question decided after consideration of the views of the local authority?
§ Colonel ASHLEYThe Order referred to appears to be the South Yorkshire Electricity Special Order, 1924, granted by the Electricity Commissioners to the Electrical Distribution of Yorkshire, Limited (a company associated with the Yorkshire Electric Power Company), which came into force on the 5th August, 1924, the date when the Order was approved by a resolution passed by both Houses of Parliament, and I have no power to postpone the coming into operation of the Order. The Electricity Commissioners are not aware of any dispute between the company and the local authority for Tickhill, nor has the company made an application for my consent to the placing of electric lines above ground in Tickhill.