JH/POL/LOC/15/6 - [Local government reorganisation - Royal Commission on Local Government in England]

JH/POL/LOC/15/6

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[Local government reorganisation - Royal Commission on Local Government in England]

1968-1970

126 items Mixed

Hunt, Joseph,
Redcliffe-Maud, John Maud,

United Kingdom. Royal Commission on Local Government in England 1966-1969

Contains press cuttings, correspondence, MS notes, memoranda, and Parliamentary reports and debates on the report of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England. This report, also known as the Redcliffe-Maud report was published on 11/6/69 and concerns the re-drawing of local boundaries so as to reduce the number of local authorities, and to end the division between town and country. Included are comments and criticisms of this report, as well as observations on the Hunt Committee report which was appointed under Sir Joseph Hunt in 1967 to examine economic growth in rural areas.