Catalogue description Ministry of Health and successors: Legal Branch and Legal and Parliamentary Branch: Local Authority Bill Papers

Files of the Local Government Board, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government containing correspondence reports by government departments and inspectors of the Ministry of Health, objections, proposed amendments and memoranda relating to parliamentary bills, provisional orders, model clauses and other legislative proposals of other government departments, local authorities, water undertakings, railway companies and other bodies. The bills cover a wide range of local government subjects including town and country planning and development; water, gas and electricity supply; compulsory purchase of land and property; sewerage and sewage disposal; transport matters; harbours; fisheries; and finance.

Local Government Board, 1871-1919

Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970

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