§ Sir A. BENNETTasked the Minister of Health how many town-planning local authorities in England and Wales are urban district councils and rural district councils, respectively; and how many of each council are now operating under the Town Planning (General Interim Development) Order, 1922, and the aggregate area and population of the districts of such councils, respectively?
§ Mr. GREENWOODAll urban and rural district councils in England and Wales are town-planning authorities. There are 783 urban district councils, other than borough councils, and 643 rural district councils. The numbers of urban and rural district councils responsible for grafting permissions for their districts or parts of their districts under the Town Planning (General Interim Development) Order, 1922, or similar Orders are 237 and 129. The aggregate area and population of the districts of these 237 urban and 129 rural councils are 861,500 acres and 4,181,300 persons, and 5,846,500 acres and 2,339,800 persons, respectively. The aggregate area of the parts of these districts for which town-planning schemes are in course of preparation is, in the case of the urban districts, 716,900 acres, and, in the case of the rural districts, 2,891,600 acres, but I have not information of the aggregate population of the town-planning areas as distinct from the districts as a whole.