HC Deb 14 April 1960 vol 621 c144W
18. Mr. MacColl

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has completed his inquiries into the advice given by his Department to the county council on the Lancashire County Council (Industrial Development etc.) Bill.

Mr. Erroll

In agreement with the Board of Trade, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government informed the Lancashire County Council that it was considered undesirable to extend the proposed powers for compulsory purchase of land for the purposes of industrial development to forty-seven district councils, particularly as Private Act powers of this kind for compulsory purchase were almost unprecedented.