HC Deb 20 February 1953 vol 511 c173W
Mr. Llewellyn

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is yet able to announce the names of the members of the committee which is to advise the Government on the industrial modernisation of the west of South Wales.

Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe

The following have accepted invitations to serve on the Committee which, as I have already announced, will be under the Chairmanship of my noble Friend, the Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department:

  • Sir George Briggs—Director, Tube Investments Limited.
  • Captain H. Leighton Davies, C.B.E.— Director, The Steel Company of Wales (Tinplate Division).
  • Alderman Huw T. Edwards—Chairman, Council for Wales and Monmouthshire.
  • Mr. Arthur H. Gale—Transport and General Workers' Union.
  • Mr. J. S. Havard—National Union of General and Municipal Workers.
  • Mr. E. H. Hickery—The Iron and Steel Trades Confederation.
  • Mr. W. F. Martin Hurst—Managing Director, Teddington Controls Ltd.
  • Mr. E. H. Lever—Chairman, The Steel Company of Wales.
  • Mr. P. J. Owen—Transport and General Workers' Union.
  • Sir Archibald Rowlands, G.C.B., M.B.E.— formerly Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
  • Mr. R. B. Southall—General Manager, National Oil Refineries Ltd.
  • Sir Percy Thomas, O.B.E.—Chairman, Welsh Board for Industry.
  • Mr. A. E. Vincent—The Iron and Steel Trades Confederation.