§ 31. Mr. Parkerasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement on the progress to date in implementing Malaya's six-year development plan.
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§ Mr. LytteltonThe Emergency has made it impossible to keep to the original development programme. Some projects have had to be deferred and others, notably communications, accelerated. Schemes for improved irrigation, water supplies and education and for electricity development have been going forward, but by far the biggest undertaking has been the resettlement of some half a million squatters in new villages. This scheme had to be given high priority as an essential Emergency measure but it is at the same time a very great achievement in social development.