Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Electricity – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 June 1964.
Mr Trevor Skeet
, Willesden East
12:00,
11 June 1964
Will my hon. Friend give the number of oil-fired power stations in the United Kingdom and their consumption in terms of coal equivalent? Is he aware that fuel oil is 5 per cent. cheaper than solid fuel, and on the capital side an oil-fired station is about 5 per cent. cheaper to build than a comparable solid-fuel station?
