§ Colonel Ropnerasked the Minister of Fuel and Power what steps are being taken by his Department to popularise and extend the use of electricity in agricultural districts generally.
Major Lloyd GeorgeDuring the war it has been necessary owing to shortage of labour and materials to restrict the development of electricity supplies to cases of hardship and the requirements of the war effort, which have, of course, included those of agriculture. If my hon. and gallant Friend is thinking of postwar development of electricity I would refer him to the answer given on 20th June by my hon. Friend the Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for East Grinstead (Colonel Clarke).