Mr. Shawcrossasked the Minister of War Transport whether all security objections to a Channel tunnel have now been removed; and if he will consider plans to construct a tunnel for road and rail traffic as soon as labour and materials are available.
§ Mr. BarnesApart from any other considerations, including the development of civil aviation, I think that there are many urgent problems of improvement 2485W and development of transport in this country to which priority would have to be given before we considered this particular and inevitably costly project.