§ 83. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Postmaster-General why his Department's new system of subscriber trunk dialling, which will come into operation in Ayr, Dundee and Greenock by the end of 1960, will not extend to Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Motherwell, and Stirling until the end of 1961; and if he will take steps to remove this disparity and give equality of opportunity to all those places.
§ Mr. K. ThompsonA big programme like this must naturally be phased. The only way in which I could satisfy the requirement in the latter part of the Question would be by withholding the facility where it had been provided. This would not be a very sensible arrangement.