HC Deb 26 January 1972 vol 829 c433W
61. Mr. Biggs-Davison

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he proposes any changes in the Government's Green Belt policy.

Mr. Peter Walker

Where regional strategies and structure plans are not sufficiently advanced to enable the Secretary of State to confirm full green belt status for an area proposed for that protection, he will apply the safeguards afforded by "interim green belt protection".

So far as the term "green belt" implies that safeguards against development apply only to belts of land around towns, it shown be known that the Government's protective policy is more extensive than that.