Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Town and Country Planning – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 11 Tachwedd 1947.
Mr Lewis Silkin
, Camberwell Peckham
12:00,
11 Tachwedd 1947
The Secretary of State and I have appointed a Board. As we desire to give the House full information I will with permission circulate a statement in the OFFICIAL REPORT. In the meantime, it may be for the convenience of the House if I anticipate this statement to the extent of saying that, with the concurrence of the Chancellor of the exchequer, the Secretary of State for Scotland and I have invited the chairman and members of the War Damage Commission to accept appointment also as members of the Central Land Board. Two of the members have been unable to take on the new appointment, but I am glad to say that the Chairman, Sir Malcolm Eve, and the other members have accepted
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