MINISTER OF PLANNING AND LAND (DUTIES)

HC Deb 24 October 1968 vol 770 c367W

Mr. Marten

asked the Prime Minister if he will make a statement defining the duties of the Minister of Planning and Land designate.

The Prime Minister

My right hon. Friend will have responsibility under my right hon. Friend the Minister of Housing and Local Government for matters relating to planning and land, and for other subjects on which the Minister of Housing and Local Government may from time to time require the assistance of a senior colleague, at a time when, following the report of the Royal Commission on Local Government, the Ministry will have urgent and special new responsibility on the first major local government reform for over seventy years.