South-East Regional Planning Study

HC Deb 11 February 1964 vol 689 cc30-1W

Lord Balniel

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs (1) when he expects to publish the South-East Regional Planning Study;

(2) whether he will give the statistical basis on which his Department estimates that the population of Hertfordshire will increase by 330,000 by 1981; whether he will give the figures showing how this estimated growth will be distributed within Hertfordshire; how much of it will be caused by migration; and how much will be caused by natural increase.

Sir K. Joseph

I hope that it will be possible for the date of publication of the Study to be announced shortly. It will include provisional estimates of the population growth that needs to be provided for by local planning authorities in the South-East, and I think it would be best not to anticipate these.