New Clause. — (Power of Ministers to contribute towards compensation paid by local authorities.)

Part of Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning (Recommitted) Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 May 1947.

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Photo of Mr Colin Thornton-Kemsley Mr Colin Thornton-Kemsley , Kincardine and Western 12:00, 13 May 1947

My feeling is that this Clause does not go far enough. It seems to me that when the Government come along and require a local authority to do the kind of thing mentioned by the Parliamentary Secretary— I admit that there may be many other things—the Clause should say that they "shall" pay to the local authority money in respect of compensation. At the moment it is permissive, whereas, in my view, it ought to be mandatory. Can the Parliamentary Secretary tell us what he feels about that?