Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee

HC Deb 28 July 1958 vol 592 c941

39. Mr. Wingfield Digby

asked the Minister of Agriculture. Fisheries and Food how many meetings of the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee have been held during the last year; and what decision he has reached about the proposal that the committee should be reconstituted.

Mr. John Hare

The Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee has met three times since 1st July, 1957. The reconstitution of the Committee presents some difficulty, and all the bodies represented on it have agreed that it should continue in its present form for the time being.

Mr. Digby

Can my right hon. Friend say when regular quarterly meetings will be resumed?

Mr. Hare

I cannot answer that. I know that the Committee was to meet in July, but that that was to be not until I had made my policy statement on forestry. I made that statement last week, and I know that the Committee is meeting to consider it in September.