HC Deb 01 December 1971 vol 827 cc457-8

Mr. William Rodgers, supported by Mr. Joel Barnett, Mr. Robert C. Brown, Mr. Ifor Davies, Mr. Edmund Dell, Mr. William H. Edwards, Mr. James Hamilton, Mr. John Horam, Mr. James Johnson, Dr. J. Dickson Mabon, Mr. Robert Maclennan, and Mr. James Tinn presented a Bill to provide for the establishment of a public corporation with the functions of promoting or assisting the economic and social development of regions of high and persistent unemployment and of intermediate areas and of promoting or assisting the establishment of any industrial enterprise connected therewith, and for matters relating to the corporation and its functions: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday, 11th February and to be printed [Bill 18].