asked the Postmaster-General if he can estimate the areas in Scotland which the television station at Kirk of Shotts will be capable of serving; and how soon will work there be completed.

I understand from the B.B.C. that, subject to local variations in hilly and built-up areas, the television station at Kirk o'Shotts is expected to give satisfactory service in the counties of East Lothian, Mid Lothian, West Lothian, Renfrew, Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan, and in substantial parts of the counties of Berwick, Selkirk, Peebles, Lanark, Ayr, Dumbarton, Stirling, Perth and Angus. The B.B.C. aims to complete the station by about the end of 1951, but in view of manufacturing delays it may be somewhat later.