§ 20. Mr. Grimondasked the Minister of Fuel and Power what experiments are at present being carried out by his Department into improving the present methods of cutting and using peat as a domestic fuel.
§ Mr. Geoffrey LloydThe experiments being carried out by my Department, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture for Scotland, are aimed at generating electric power from peat by open-cycle gas turbines. But the peat-cutting and dewatering processes developed as part of this project might be applied in the preparation of a domestic fuel and this possibility is being borne in mind.