16. Mr. Watkinsasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government the number of applications for grants towards water supplies and sewerage schemes which have been disallowed in Wales since 26th October, 1955.
§ Mr. PowellFive, Sir; but only two of these were, in any case, eligible for grant.
Mr. WatkinsWill the Parliamentary Secretary bear in mind that the recent White Paper on rural Wales urged that encouragement should be given to district councils in rural mid-Wales and elsewhere by means of grants towards these schemes, and yet he is now disallowing these schemes altogether?
§ Mr. PowellI think that my Answer is evidence that schemes are going forward.