§ Mr. CLOUGHasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he can give any assurance that, in the event of a local sanitary authority acting as a responsible authority under the Housing and Town planning Bill for a town-planning scheme within the area of a neighbouring authority, the latter will retain all its duties and powers as regards the provision of sewerage, water supply, lighting, and consequential works throughout its own area, and that none of such duties and powers will pass to the responsible authority by virtue of any regulations hereafter made under that Act by the Local Government Board?
§ Mr. BURNSIt is not intended that the powers and duties of a neighbouring local 201W authority should be transferred to the local authority responsible for the execution of a town planning scheme. These powers and duties would not be interfered with, except in so far as it might be necessary in order to secure the carrying out of the scheme. For example, it might be necessary to provide that they should be exercised in some particular way.