§ Mr. Michael Lathamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will outline the qualifications or experience upon the basis of which he appointed each of the persons to the Housing Corporation listed in his answer to the hon. Member for Gateshead, West (Mr. Horam) on 17th December 1974.
§ Mr. CroslandI set out below details of the previous experience of those whom I have recently appointed or reappointed to the Housing Corporation. All of them have knowledge and experience which will be of value to the corporation in dealing with the problems it is facing.
The right hon. Lord Greenwood of Rossendale: a former Minister of Housing and Local Government, is Chairman of the Local Government Staff Commission; Chairman of the Leek, Westbourne and Eastern Counties Building Society and Chairman of the United Kingdom Housing Association.Father Paul Byrne: is Director of Shelter Housing Aid Centre; former Director of Catholic Housing Aid Society and Family Housing Association; member of Hearth and Home Ltd. management committee; trustee of Servite Homes Geriatric Day Hospital.Mr. John Coward: is Director of the Notting Hill Housing Trust; trustee of Sutton Housing Trust; trustee of Shelter; member of the National Federation of Housing Associations council.Mr. James Kegie: is a former county planning officer, Monmouthshire County Council; member of the Countryside Commission.Mr. David Llewellyn: is a director of Walter Llewellyn and Sons Ltd., building and civil engineering contractor; is a member of the Board of the National Building Agency, and was formerly Industrial Adviser to the Minister of Housing.Mr. David Mumford: is General Manager of Birmingham COPEC Housing Asociation and is Chairman of the Birmingham City Council land committee.Mr. William Taylor: is a former Glasgow city councillor; former Chairman of Livingston New Town Corporation; currently Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Planning Exchange; Governor of the Centre for Environmental Studies; Chairman of the 244W Scottish Executive of the Town and Country Planning Association.Sir Stanley Morton: is Chairman of the Abbey National Building Society, and was formerly Chairman of the Building Societies Association.Mr. Lewis Waddilove: is Director of the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Housing Trust, and was formerly Chairman of the National Federation of Housing Associations.