Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Fuel and Power – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 December 1949.
Unfortunately, it would cost us some £20 million worth of foreign exchange if we were to supply the coal that would be required as a result of abolishing rationing, and I would not care to prophesy when coal output will have reached the point at which we shall be able to abolish rationing.