§ Mr. James Whiteasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he has taken to reconstitute the Scottish Housing Advisory Committee: and what policy role he foresees for it.
§ Mr. MillanI have recently reconstituted the Committee for a three-year term, with Mr. W. A. Gordon Muir as chairman. I shall look to the Committee for advice on the development of various aspects of housing policy, following the Green Paper, Cmnd. 6852. The Committee will carry out in the first place a study of allocations and transfers in the public sector: I hope that before long agreement can be reached, in consultation with the Committee, on other tasks that might be undertaken.
The full list of members is as follows:
- Mr. A. Burton, Director of Planning Exchange, Glasgow.
- Councillor A. T. Carswell, North East Fife District Council.
209 - Mr. Peter Gibson, Director of the Scottish Consumer Council.
- Mr. M. A. Gillespie, Director of Social Work, Fife.
- Mr. P. Cocker, Architect, Edinburgh.
- Mr. W. N. Gordon, President of the Scottish Association of Registered House Builders.
- Mr. A. Green, Chairman of the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations.
- Mrs. E. Hunter, Shelter.
- Mr. W. Hutchison, President of the Scottish Building Societies Association.
- Councillor R. Mardon, Ross and Cromarty District Council.
- Professor T. Markus, Professor of Building Science, Strathclyde University.
- Councillor D. Mason, Kirkaldy District Council.
- Mrs. J. D. O. Morris, Formerly Chairman of the Morris Committee on Links between Housing and Social Work.
- Mr. W. A. Gordon Muir, Chairman of the SSHA.
- Mrs. A. Munro, Member of the Management Committee of the Summerston Cooperative Glasgow.
- Mr. T. McCalmont, representative of the union side of the Building Industry (Vice Chairman).
- Mr. P. Robertson, Director of Environmental Health, Clackmannan District Council.
- Mr. G. Smith, Director of Housing, Dundee.
- Councillor C. Waugh, Edinburgh District Council.