HC Deb 17 December 1968 vol 775 cc319-20W
33. Mr. Rose

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government when

Mr. Skeffington

The first estimate of the rate support grants for 1969-70 will not be available until early in January when it will be notified to the Corporation. The latest estimates of these grants for 1967-68 and 1968-69 and of the corresponding grants for 1965-66 and 1966-67 are as follows:

he will introduce legislation to amend the compensation payable to owners of property in slum clearance areas.

Mr. MacColl

Legislation will be introduced this Session to bring the compensation of owner-occupiers in general up to full market value, where slum clearance action was begun after 23rd April, 1968, and to increase the payments for well-maintained tenanted houses.

34. Mr. Rose

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will issue a circular to local authorities advising them to refrain from making prior announcements in relation to properties to be surveyed with a view to clearance so as to avoid the unnecessary imposition of planning blight.

Mr. MacColl

In the view of the Government, this seems best left to the judgment of the local authority.