The hon. Member must allow me to make my statement in my own way, on a matter which affects my personal honour. I got into touch with the persons interested in the power companies. I did so because they had the protection of Clause 15, and if there was to be anything taken away from that Clause it must be with their consent. The hon. Member for East Edinburgh (Mr. Hogge), who has only just come into the House, and has not the faintest notion of what has been happening, sneers in his usual manner.