§ Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Assistant Postmaster-General on what principle he gives the priorities in which new television stations shall be brought into operation; and in what way he applies this principle 174W to his decision to postpone a television station for the North-East of Scotland.
§ Mr. GammansThe broad principle followed by the B.B.C. with the approval of my noble Friend is to give television service in each of the four national sections of the United Kingdom and within those sections to give priority according to the size of the population to be served. The new station at Belfast is being provided on the first ground and that at Pontop Pike on the second. It is too early to say in what order other stations will be set up and, in any case, an otherwise desirable order of priority may be subject to modification because of the work involved in connecting new stations to the existing television network.