§ Mr. Robensasked the Paymaster-General if he will state the total amount spent from nationalisation to date by the Gas Council and Gas Boards on research in the gasification of coal.
§ Sir I. HorobinExpenditure on research into the gasification of coal since vesting date amounts to nearly £1¼million. In addition the Gas Council has undertaken the construction of a new type of high pressure gasification plant on a commercial scale at an estimated expenditure of some £5 million. In order to solve chemical engineering problems this plant will be used initially to gasify oil but in its final development it is planned to gasify small coal.