Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Fuel and Power. – in the House of Commons on 4th August 1942.
Does the right hon. and gallant Gentleman realise that in a great many matters, and particularly in this, people in rural districts, especially very remote ones, have a feeling that the officials in the towns know more about the towns and are more sympathetic to them? Will he try to remove that feeling by giving some preference to remoter areas, where clearly the need is very much greater?