§ Sir R. Glynasked the Minister of Health if, having regard to the urgency of an improved and extended water system, as being fundamental to town and country planning, it is the intention of the Government to attempt national organisation under Sections 1 to 4 of the Water Act, 1945, in the immediate future, and, mean while, to suspend water planning by county councils and district councils whose 834W boundaries rarely correspond with those appropriate to the water areas envisaged by the Act, and whose plans, if approved, would prevent economical water organisation for the country as a whole.
§ Mr. A BevanThe Government intend to make full use of the powers of the Water Act, 1945, which comes into force next October, and will take all necessary steps to that end. Water supply schemes will be judged by the Ministry on their merits—machinery is provided by the Act for overcoming any difficulties caused by the administrative boundaries of local authorities.