§ Mr. Tebbitasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the official standing committees involving persons other than civil servants with which he consults periodically about the housing and building programme; and what action he is taking to merge or otherwise reorganise the bodies involved.
§ Mr. ChannonConsultations take place with the National Consultative Council of the Building and Civil Engineering Industries (N.C.C.) and its associated bodies dealing with specific areas of activity. Within the N.C.C. framework 123W there are standing consultative committees for housing, civil engineering, subcontractors building materials, and statistics. In addition there are regional joint committees of the building and civil engineering industries in ten English regions (including London), a joint advisory panel in Scotland and a joint advisory committee for Wales.
The consultative arrangements were reviewed with the National Consultative Council in March, 1971. As a result the former Housing Programme Working Party was reconstituted as the Standing
Interchange Dual carriageway link roads When open 1. Chiswick … … … A4 eastward into Central London … … … Open 2. Lionel Road … … A4 westwand, 7 miles … … … … … Open 3. Parkway … … … (a) A312 (Ringway 3) southward to Cranford, ½ mile … 1974 (b) A312 (Ringway 3) southward to Cranford, to A30, 1 mile. Open 4. London Airport … Motorway south to Airport, 1 mile … … … Open 5. Langley … … … A4 northward, 0.3 miles … … … … Open 6. Slough Central … … (a) A355 northward to A4, 0.6 miles … … … Open (b) A355 southward (Eton-Windsor Relief Road), 1.6 miles. Open 9. Holyport … … (a) A423(M), currently west end of M4 terminating at Maidenhead Thicket, 2. 5 miles. Renumbered late 1971 (b) A423 northward (Maidenhead Thicket to Burchetts Green), 1.3 miles. 1975 (c) A404 northward from Burchetts Green (Marlow-Bisham Bypass), 2.6 miles. 1972 (d) A308 northward, 1.5 miles … … … … Open 10. Winnersh … … (a) Westward link to A329, Loddon Bridge, 2.1 miles 1972 (b) A329 Relief Road, Loddon Bridge westward to A4, 2.3 miles. 1973 (c) Eastward link to A3212, 0.7 miles … … … 1972 (d) A329 Relief Road, A321 eastward to Amen Corner, 2.1 miles. 1974 11. Three Mile Cross … (a) A33 northward, 0.4 miles … … … … Late 1971 (b) A33 northward from (a), 0.8 miles … … … 1974 12. Theale … … … A4 westwand (Theale Bypass), 1.4 miles … … Open 13. Chieveley … … (a) A34 northward, 3.4 miles … … … … 1975 (b) A34 northward from (a), 2 miles … … … Open (c) A34 southward to A4 (Newbury), 3.1 miles … 1974 (d) A34 southward (Newbury North-South Relief Road), 0.7 miles. Open 15. Badbury … … … (a) A345 northward, 2.2 miles … … … … Open (b) A419 northward, 2 miles … … … … Open 16. Lydiard Tregoze … A420 eastward, 0.5 miles … … … … Open 17. Stanton St. Quintin … A429 southward, 1 mile … … … … … Open 18. Tormarton … … A46 northward and southward, 0.5 miles … … Open 19. Hambrook … … (a) M32 southward (Hambrook Spur), 0.7 miles … Open (b) M32 southward from (a) (Bristol Parkway Stage I), 3 miles. Open (c) M32 southward from (b) (Bristol Parkway Stage II), 1 mile. 1973 21. Aust … … … A403 southward, 0.3 miles … … … … Open