and whether, in view of the National Fuel Crisis, exceptions can be made in approved cases for this purpose.

That figure for totally unemployed has been exceeded only twice since the war; once during the severe winter of 1963, when we had the worst winter of the century, and once during the National Fuel Crisis of 1947.

During the National Fuel Crisis in 1956, when I was an apprentice in the Midlands, I used to offer friends and acquaintances a petrol-saving device to be fitted by me.