HC Deb 30 January 1930 vol 234 cc1197-8W
Brigadier-General CLIFTON BROWN

asked the Minister of Health whether he has received a petition from the Woodley Vagrancy Protest Committee protesting against his sanctioning the erection of a tramp clearing-house in a picturesque spot in their midst without a public inquiry to hear their objections; whether he is aware that the Wokingham Rural District Council are refusing to permit the erection of this vagrancy ward under a Town Planning Order, 1922; and whether, in view of these and other difficulties which have arisen about water supply, he will now appoint a public inquiry into the whole matter?

Mr. GREENWOOD

The answers to the first two parts of the hon. and gallant Member's question are in the affirmative; as regards the third part of the question, I would refer him to the answer given to his question of 5th December, 1929.