§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Industry if it is his policy to undertake the establishment of a national authority to promote and develop petrochemical sites.
§ Mr. Les Huckfield:No. These matters are already being examined in detail by existing inter-departmental machinery. The Government accept that no major industrial investment should be lost through an inability to provide sites in the right place at the right time. Action has already been taken to give high priority to the needs of industry in the fields of planning and land; for example, local authorities have been asked to give industry top priority in the handling of planning applications and making land available for development.