HC Deb 19 December 1967 vol 756 c359W
80. Mr. Blenkinsop

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will seek to set up a special national organisation to speed up the clearance and redevelopment of derelict sites; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Skeffington:

The local authorities are pressing on steadily with this work, with the help of substantial Exchequer grants, and I am not clear that to form a special organisation for it on a national scale would be helpful to them.