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Membership of the National Economic Development Committee

Oral Answers to Questions — Economic Affairs – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 26 Tachwedd 1964.

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Management:

  • Mr. J. M. Laing (Managing Director, J. Laing & Son).
  • Mr. A. R. M. Geddes (Managing Director, Dunlop Rubber Co.).
  • *Mr. John Davies (Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd.).
  • *Sir Peter Runge (President, Federation of British Industries).
  • *Sir Denning Pearson (Chief Executive and Deputy-Chairman, Rolls Royce Ltd.).
  • *Mr. K. A. Keith (Chairman, Phillip Hill Higginson, Erlangers).

Trade Unions:

  • Mr. George Woodcock (General Secretary, T.U.C.).
  • Sir William Carron (President, A.E.U.).
  • Sir Harry Douglass (General Secretary, Iron & Steel Trade Confederation).
  • Mr. S. F. Greene (General Secretary, N.U.R.).
  • Mr. R. Smith (General Secretary, U.P.W.).
  • *Mr. Jack Cooper (General Secretary, N.U.G.M.W.).

Independents:

  • *Mr. W. Coutts Donald (Chairman, Management Consultants Association).
  • Professor E. H. Phelps-Brown (Professor of Economics, London School of Economics).

Nationalised Industries:

  • Lord Robens of Woldingham (Chairman, National Coal Board).
  • *Sir Ronald Edwards (Chairman, Electricity Council).
  • Other members of the Council will be:

Government:

  • First Secretary of State (Rt. Hon. George Brown).
  • President, Board of Trade (Rt. Hon. Douglas Jay).
  • Minister of Labour (Rt. Hon. Ray Gunter).
  • Minister of Technology (Rt. Hon. F. Cousins).
  • Chief Industrial Adviser (Mr. H. F. R. Catherwood).

Director General:

  • Sir Robert Shone.

* New appointments.

Secretary of State

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Minister

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