Slum Clearance Orders (Compensation)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 February 1959.

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Photo of Bernard Braine Bernard Braine , Essex South East 12:00, 24 February 1959

Is my right hon. Friend aware that there have been distressing cases mentioned in the Press at Barking in Essex and Atherstone in Warwickshire? Is he aware that elderly widows have been turned out without compensation at all? It is clear that the terms of the Circular were ignored in those cases. Does not my right hon. Friend think that the attention of such authorities should be drawn again to the existence of the Circular?