Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL [Lords].

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am ar 25 Gorffennaf 1922.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Mr George Balfour Mr George Balfour , Hampstead

Suppose a local authority makes a voluntary arrangement to transfer its generating station to the joint electricity authority. What will be the position if that local authority, having very improvidently transferred its station at a big price to the joint electricity authority, makes a contract to purchase electricity from the joint electricity authority at a high price per unit as compensation for the big price paid, saddling the ratepayers for many years—the very reverse from what was contemplated by the Electricity Acts—with a high price for electricity. This proposal would protect them.