With regard to regional water supply schemes which have been the subject of applications for grant, the county councils of Aberdeen, Angus, Banff, Berwick, Caithness, Kincardine, Orkney and Wig-town have been notified that a part of their regional water supply schemes has been provisionally selected with a view to an offer of grant under the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act, 1944. The county councils of Dunbarton and Lanark have been informed that I am prepared to consider regional water supply schemes for these counties with a view to an offer of grant under the Distribution of Industry Act, 1945.