Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 December 1952.
I apologise to the hon. Member. I withdraw unreservedly. I have had the ground completely cut from under my feet. Nevertheless, the fact remains just the same that they regarded it as not immediately practicable. Although, at the same time, there was a suspicion in the Report that a lot of the people on the Uthwatt Committee thought that this might be the most sensible solution that might be brought up, they ruled it out because they said that they did not consider it practicable as an immediate measure.