Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Works – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 November 1947.
Mr Charles Key
, Poplar Bow and Bromley
12:00,
24 November 1947
That is an entirely different question and an entirely different attitude. I cannot in all cases accept that the local authority are the determining factor in the carrying out of any particular building operation. I must reserve to the central Department the power of looking at things from a national and not a local point of view.