§ Mr. Dudley Smithasked the Minister of Technology (1) what is the latest estimated cost of converting the nation to natural gas; and what was the original forecast before the conversion programme started;
(2) if he will give an estimate of the additional cost to the overall natural gas 408W conversion programme as a result of the current percentage rate of call-backs following conversion.
Mr. Alan WilliamsI refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend to the hon. Members for Dudley (Mr. Donald Williams), Belfast, South (Mr. Pounder), Bournemouth, West (Sir J. Eden) and New Forest (Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson) on 23rd February.—[Vol. 796, c. 815.]