Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 June 1959.
While that explains the delay which in some measure has taken place over this matter since the original Committee was appointed, can the Joint Under-Secretary now go a little further and tell us why, since none of the canals in Scotland is linked in any way with those south of the Border, there was not a separate development board for Scotland?