§ 13. Mr. Moonmanasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will now publish an advance timetable on the transfer of housing assets for local authorities in new towns so that they may make the appropriate organisational arrangements and to recruit staff.
§ Mr. Denis HowellI would refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave him on 7th April.—[Vol. 799, c. 225.]
§ Mr. MoonmanWill not my hon. Friend reconsider his earlier decision and not delay the transfer of assets from new town corporations to the council and so avoid the natural suspicions, uncertainties and anxieties which will arise among staff affected by the change? Will he try to give an answer before the Whitsun Recess?
§ Mr. HowellI was not quite sure what issue my hon. Friend was asking me to reconsider. We have undertaken to give this statement to the House during the summer. I could not say that it will be available before Whitsun, but we are anxious to make it available at the earliest possible moment.