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Mr. Michael Latham
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will give an assurance that no persons other than Ministers or established civil servants in his Department were involved in the drafting of the departmental consultation paper "New Towns in England and Wales".
Mr. John Silkin
The proposals in the Department's consultation document are a distillation of the best ideas upon the subject of my right hon. Friend and myself.