Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 November 1972.
The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the board at Aycliffe is the same as that for Peterlee New Town, in my constituency. Is he aware that there is considerable concern and despair about the delay in appointing the new board, and that that concern is not allayed by the kind of unsatisfactory correspondence which he sent to me? Will he make the appointments soon, and also take into consideration the fact that there should be more local representation that there has been hitherto?