HC Deb 23 May 1968 vol 765 c852
20. Mr. Wall

asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs when the Humberside feasibility study, completed in August, 1967, will be published.

11. Sir C. Osborne

asked the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs when he expects to receive the findings of the feasibility studies unit for Humberside.

Mr. Shore

I expect to receive the report of the Central Unit for Environmental Planning during the current Session: but it is too soon to determine a date of publication.

Mr. Wall

We were asked to wait for the Report of the Economic Planning Council and then for the Government's views on it, and then this new study was set up. Is it not a fact that the right hon. Gentleman has had this Report in his office for some months? Will he guarantee that it will be published before the end of this year, as a good deal of development is being held up on the Humberside?

Mr. Shore

I do not think that development is being held up by waiting for the publication of this Report. There has been completed a Report by the Physical Planning Unit, which was sent in at once, but the economic appraisal of this, which is always seen as the second stage, has yet to be completed.