Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am ar 25 Gorffennaf 1922.
I find myself in some difficulty. The hon. Member who moved the deletion of the Clause is associated with the Municipal Corporations Association, who have agreed to it as meeting to the fullest possible extent the objections which he has raised. My hon. Friend, apparently, thinks that they do not understand their business, and that the Electricity Commissioners and the Government are out to encourage dear electricity. Let me disillusion him, once and for all, on that point. There is no such design in, and no such possible result from, this Clause. The hon. Member has carefully avoided dealing with the new Clause, which must be read alongside this. If he will look at Section 12, his fears must vanish. I am advised by the Commissioners, who know the whole of the area and have looked at it district by district and authority by authority, that the fears the hon. Member has expressed have no ground whatever.