Statutory Duties (Failure)

HC Deb 20 February 1947 vol 433 cc207-8W

84. Mr. Pickthorn

asked the Minister of Fuel and Power in how many cases and in what respects, recently, the electricity companies have failed to fulfil their statutory duties.

Mr. Shinwell

It is for the courts to decide whether an electricity undertaking has failed to carry out its statutory duties. I know of no recent case of such a decision.