HC Deb 18 July 1961 vol 644 cc115-6W
66. Mr. Hector Hughes

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will now set up a departmental inquiry into the numbers and operations during each of the last 10 years of foreign trawlers in British waters, the damage done by them to fish stocks in those waters, and the losses suffered as a consequence by the British fishing industry and consumers of fish.

Mr. Maclay

No, I do not think that such an inquiry would add anything useful to the information we already have.