§ Mr. Ellis Smithasked the Minister of Transport, if he will give instructions that the Greater Manchester area survey on transport, land utilisation, future sites for housing, and movement of population, should be a comprehensive survey, and that, as in the Merseyside survey, the British Railways divisional manager and his staff should be invited to co-operate.
§ Mr. MarplesThe major local authorities in the Manchester area and I have agreed that a comprehensive transport survey should be undertaken in their conurbation. The scope of the survey and other arrangements will be decided by a Steering Committee consisting of representatives of the local authorities, Government Departments and transport operators concerned. The British Railways Board has been closely associated with the proposals for the survey and will be represented on this Committee.