§ 32. Mr. Arthur Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning what I the administrative machinery in his Department for dealing with land use planning, economic planning and industrial location; and what arrangements he is making to ensure the future co-ordination of these with Her Majesty's Government's policy for issuing industrial development certificates.
§ Mr. CroslandI have established a new central group of planning divisions consisting of the regional planning divisions of the old D.E.A. and the planning divisions of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. On the regional planning aspects of its work this group reports directly to me.
I shall be working in the closest cooperation with my right hon. Friend the Minister of Technology in the co-ordination of industrial location policy with regional policy as a whole, for which I am now responsible.