Major Lloydasked the Secretary for Mines whether his attention has been called to the fact that every householder in Britain is to be asked to give a written assurance to do everything possible to cut down domestic consumption of fuel and to sign a declaration promising to do everything in his power to save coal, coke, electricity, gas fuel, oil and paraffin; and whether he will consider a broadcast appeal to the public as being more effective and saving the waste of paper which would be caused by the proposed distribution of forms, many of which would never be completed?
§ Mr. GrenfellI am informed by the representatives of the gas and electricity supply industries that the public response to the form of pledge which they have distributed at their own expense is most332W encouraging and that the results which it is hoped to attain will more than justify the use of the relatively small amount of paper involved. With the assistance of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Information, I am arranging a series of fuel economy broadcasts but I do not regard them as a complete substitute for this more direct and individual approach to the community.