asked the Postmaster-General whether he has yet had any reply from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics about the interference with the North Regional programme of the British Broadcasting Corporation on Tees-side.

The Soviet Administration have replied that they are studying ways of reducing the interference on frequency 692 kilocycles per second (B.B.C. Northern Home Service), and on frequency 908 kilocycles per second (London Home Service). So that their measures could be made more effective they asked for, and I am supplying, technical information about the interference. The Soviet reply indicated that their stations were outside the area governed by the European Broadcasting Convention, Copenhagen, 1950.