§ 1. Sir G. Foxasked the Minister of Fuel and Power when electricity will be supplied to the villages of Stoke Lyne and Hardwick, Oxfordshire, where the poles were delivered in 1939 and subsequently removed before erection.
§ Mr. ShinwellThe Wessex Electricity Company inform me that they will supply these villages as soon as materials are available.
§ 2. Sir G. Foxasked the Minister of Fuel and Power when he anticipates that electric light will be installed in all the houses in Maidensgrove, Henley-on-Thames.
§ Mr. ShinwellCertain premises in Maidensgrove were provided with electricity in 1939 and during the war no further applications for supply were received. I am, however, informed that the Supply Company have already made arrangements to provide a supply to the remaining premises in Maidensgrove as soon as the necessary materials and labour are available.
Mr. Vaneasked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he will clarify the Government's policy on the use of reinforced concrete poles for the supply of electricity in rural areas.
§ Mr. ShinwellTo supply rural areas with electricity at the earliest possible date the Government are encouraging the use of concrete poles wherever practicable. A technical committee is studying the possibility of reducing the cost of concrete poles which, as I informed the hon. Member on the 2nd April, is higher than the cost of wooden poles.