47. Lieut.-Commander Clark Hutchisonasked the Prime Minister the names of the members of the Crown Lands Advisory Committee and when the last meeting of this committee was held.
§ Mr. H. MorrisonI have been asked to reply. The Crown Lands Advisory Committee, originally appointed in 1933 for a term of four years, was in 1937 re-appointed for a further four years. When this further term expired in 1941, the then Prime Minister decided, with the concurrence of Lord Gorell, the Chairman of the Committee, that it was unnecessary to re-appoint the Committee, bearing in mind that the Committee's duties were likely to be adequately covered in future by new central planning powers and that the Royal Fine Art Commission was available for consultation on aesthetic questions. The Committee held its last meeting in 1939.