Mrs. Slater:

Is it not significant that this should be cancelled in 1958, when representation was made to the Board of Trade as far back as 1957? This large undertaking, with a £3 million capital expenditure, put out tenders for cast iron pipes and received four identical tenders. Does not that make a farce of tendering and hold local authorities and joint boards at the point of a pistol in the hands of these firms which are nothing more or less than a monopoly?