Department of Economic Affairs: Sub-Committee on the South East: Minutes and Papers

EW 21

1965

This series contains the minutes and papers of the Subcommittee on the South East as well as advice given by the subcommittee to Ministers in November 1965.

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The Sub-Committee on the South East was set up in February 1965. The chairperson and secretariat of the Sub-Committee were provided from the Department of Economic Affairs, but membership was interdepartmental with representation from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Transport, the Scottish Development Department, the General Register Office, the Treasury and the Board of Trade, as well as the Department of Economic Affairs.

The Sub-Committee was required by the Official Committee on Regional Economic Planning to collate and analyse existing information on population trends and the economic structure of the South East and its sub-regions, and thence to: (a) re-examine in the light of subsequent information the assumptions made in the South East Study about population growth in the regions;b) consider practical measures that could be taken by Government to discourage migration into the South East and to encourage movement away from the congested metropolitan area;(c) review the existing machinery for regional planning in the South East.