Jack Report to be Secret?
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TS the Government going to have second thoughts about making public the report of the Jack Committee on rural transport? writes a special correspondent. Until now it has been widely assumed that the report would be published. However, this week a Ministry of Transport spokesman said that the
• report will not necessarily be published. The spokesman asserted that ail the Minister has ever said was that the report -would he " received" by him by the end of 1960.
It was, in fact, added the spokesman, not yet in the Minister's hands but was expected to be "soon."
On November 9 Mr. Marples was asked in the Commons when he expected to receive the report and whether he would make a statement. --In a written reply the Minister said: The committee hopes to present its, report to me before the. end of the year."