Dr. Bennettasked the Minister of Power what is the scale on which the Regent Oil Company has recently dismissed as redundant its senior executives; and to what extent this policy controverts the undertakings given by the 94W company, and repeated by Her Majesty's Government, when this company was taken over by United States oil interests.
§ Mr. WoodWhen the purchase of the Trinidad Oil Company by the Texas Company was approved, the employment of people in this country by the Regent Oil Company was outside the scope of the undertakings given.