HC Deb 19 November 1953 vol 520 cc184-5W
89. Mr. Gower

asked the Minister of Agriculture why, in some recent inquiries into cases where housing authorities sought to build on good agricultural land when other inferior land might be used for building purposes, his Department was not represented; and if he will make a statement.

Sir T. Dugdale

I do not know to what particular inquiries my hon. Friend is referring, but in any case it is not the practice for representatives of one Government Department to give evidence at an inquiry held by another Department.

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