Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Coal – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 21st March 1960.
As a result of another three months' experience of these very large coal stocks, can my right hon. Friend confirm that he adheres to the view which he expressed on 23rd November last that these stocks, notwithstanding a very high ash-content, deteriorate at the rate of only 1 per cent. per annum?