Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 January 1964.
The Parliamentary Secretary made it quite clear that there would be no distinction between the money for the Commission and for the corporations. If I am right in my interpretation of what he has said, that means that it has a bearing on much of the substance of the debate on the Bill itself, in that if a development corporation decides that a new town has reached its limit and should be handed over to the Commission, and if, a little later, the Minister decides, for reasons of economy and of inadequacies of planning, that it would be a good idea further to expand the size of a new town, the Commission could now obtain the finance for carrying out further development without having to ask Parliament for more money—the money would be available from the amount voted in the Money Resolution.
This raises very serious doubts in my mind. It seems that we are here not precluding further expansions of exist-ink new towns that we may wish to preclude.