Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am ar 25 Gorffennaf 1922.
I am afraid that I cannot go further than I have gone in accepting the Clause now under discussion. There may be, as I explained t the Committee, borderline cases where there is a very small difference. It may be a difference which will disappear in the process of time, and the Commissioners are charged under the principal Act to endeavour to obtain a more plentiful more effective and more cheap supply, of energy, and they should have regard to the general interests, rather than to be limited by small interests which might well be only of a temporary character. Therefore, the Government do consider these general words which are in the last few lines of the Clause essential, and it is in that sense only that I am able to accept the whole of the Clause. It is a very substantial modification of the powers of the Commissioners as found under the original Clause 11 of the principal Act.