HC Deb 21 December 1972 vol 848 cc441-2W
Mr. Skeet

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will now announce the membership of the Advisory Committee on Aggregates.

Mr. Rippon

I am pleased to be able to say that, in addition to the chairman, Mr. Ralph Verney, whose appointment has already been announced, 12 individuals with a wide knowledge of the problems arising from the need for aggregates have agreed to serve on the Advisory Committee on Aggregates.

in each region in each of the last five years.

Mr. Graham Page

I regret that the information about numbers of spoil heaps is not available. The acreage of spoil heaps in England classified as derelict and justifying treatment at the end of each of the last five years was as follows:

The names of the committee are:

  • Ralph B. Verney, J.P., D.L. (Chairman).
  • G. Alexander, I.S.O., F.R.I.C.S., F.I., Min.E., C.Eng., until 1970, Superintendent Valuer, Mineral Section, Inland Revenue.
  • D. H. Broadbent, B.Sc.(Eng.)C.Eng., F.I.C.I., F.I.Mech.E., F.I.E.E., M.B.I.M., Director, Special Projects, National Coal Board.
  • Brigadier T. F. J. Collins, C.B.E., J.P., D.L., Member, Essex County Council, and Chairman of the Council 1968–1971.
  • Sir Kingsley Dunham, F.R.S., Director, Institute of Geological Sciences.
  • A. F. Holford-Walker, M.A., Secretary, Council for the Protection of Rural England.
  • C. A. J. Jacobs, M.T.P.I., C.Eng., F.I.Mun.E., County Planning Officer, Denbighshire.
  • Alderman, J. Luff, Managing Director, John Wainwright & Co., Ltd., Downside, Shepton Mallet.
  • D. L. Munby, M.A., Reader in Economics and the Origin of Transport, Nuffield College, Oxford.
  • J. S. Ornsby, B.Sc., M.I.Q., Grad 1 Mech.E., Director, Ready-Mixed Concrete (U.K.), Ltd.
  • S. J. Pedler, M.A., Director and Secretary, R. M. Douglas Construction Ltd.
  • R. D. Stacey, M.Sc., B.Comm., Ph.D., Group Economist, John Laing Construction Ltd.
  • Alderman G. N. Wilson, Chairman, Derbyshire county planning committee and Chairman of the Council, 1967–1969.

In addition, the Advisory Committee has four departmental assessors appointed by the Department of the Environment (2), the Scottish Office and the Welsh Office.

The Advisory Committee held its first meeting on 12th December.