§ Mr. Nealasked the Minister of Power what plans he has to prevent the decline in coal consumption by the gas industry.
§ Mr. ErrollThe gas industry devotes much of its research to new processes for making gas from coal on an economic basis. Exploitation of any such processes will be assisted by an expansion of the gas market, and this is at present made possible by new oil-using processes which are highly economical in capital and current costs.