Department of Economic Affairs: Committee on Intermediate Areas (Hunt Committee):...

EW 18

1967-1969

This series contains written evidence submitted to the Committee on Intermediate Areas (Hunt Committee). It includes evidence from employers' associations, local authorities, trade unions and other interested bodies, such as regional development associations and regional planning councils.

By geographical region

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Department of the Environment, 1970-1997, from 1990

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The Committee on Intermediate Areas was appointed by the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs on 21 September 1967. It was chaired by Sir Joseph Hunt. It followed a White Paper of June 1967 entitled The Development Areas: Regional Employment Premium, and its terms of reference were:

"... to examine in relation to the economic welfare of the country as a whole and the needs of the development areas, the situation in other areas where the rate of economic growth gives cause (or may give cause) for concern, and to suggest whether revised policies to influence economic growth in such areas are desirable and, if so, what measures should be adopted."

The membership of the Committee included industrialists, professional economists, trade unionists, and members of several regional planning councils. Officials from a variety of government departments acted as assessors.