§ 80. Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenportasked the Minister of Fuel and Power what are the plans of his Department to 240W ensure that there will be no shortage of coal supplies during the current winter in any particular part of the country owing to interference with the road and rail transport of coal by adverse weather conditions, such as snow and frost.
§ Mr. GaitskellTransport plans are, of course, the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport, but neither he nor I can give an absolute guarantee that shortage of coal supplies may not result from the effect of bad weather on road and rail transport. The existence of widely distributed stocks at a level well above that of last year does however considerably reduce the risk that this may occur.