There are still a few points which need stressing. The House of Commons, having accepted the principle of limitation of output must, I concede, provide some means of implementing that decision, and I cannot see any other way than by instituting some sort of system of factory licences, but I would call attention to the silent revolution through which we have passed. I am in something of a dilemma, because hon. Members who represent South Wales constituencies have recently been asking the President of the Board of Trade to interfere with a certain concern and to impose upon them a veto to prevent them taking their works to another part of the country, and, therefore, I find it very difficult this afternoon to refuse the request of the Minister for powers to prevent factories being put up because other factories are not working on an economic basis owing to the inadequate supply of pigs. Perhaps the most engaging revolutionist that has ever sat on those benches is the Minister of Agriculture, because he has piloted us through this amazing transformation, and he is giving to a statutory body only inadequately controlled by this House powers to veto private enterprise.

Yet, I believe that there must be some means of implementing this decision, but I want to secure from the Minister a very definite assurance that the Development Board will not be allowed to exercise its powers in a tyrannical way. Since 1933 a company backed by the whole of the agricultural community has been seeking permission to build a bacon factory—this is not the first time I have mentioned it to the Minister—in West Wales. Naturally one would desire that these people should have permission to build a factory, but the fact remains that they will now have to apply for a licence to a body which does not represent opinion in that area, and, with the exception of the nominees of the Government, does not represent the opinion of the consumers. You are endowing this Development Board with the right to say that there shall not be a bacon factory, whereas the whole local opinion is in favour of it. The capital is available on option on the site which has been taken, and all the farmers are favourable, yet we confer powers on that body to veto such a development. I hope that, if we are to give these powers to the Development Board, the Minister will exercise the most rigorous vigilance in preventing their tyrannous application. We have passed through this revolution, and it may be that the extension of these powers to industrial bodies will bring about revolutionary changes in this country which we do not clearly envisage in passing this Measure.