Record

EV ID	EV-0261
Title	Hansard, 29 January and 5 February 1963 (with 14 November 1946): Western Ground Rents Ltd and ministers: a WGR director sent correspondence to the Lord Chancellor (11 July 1961) and to the Minister (3 December 1962) (context only)
Date of document	29 January and 5 February 1963
Type	parliamentary record
Evidence label	HANSARD (read in full)
Repository / reference	HC Deb 29 Jan 1963 vol 670 cc738–40 (incl. “Evictions, Cardiff”); HC Deb 5 Feb 1963 vol 671 cc224–5; HC Deb 14 Nov 1946
Status	HELD (public record, read)
Provenance	Historic Hansard, read 17 Oct 2026 (research cycles 4 and 6).
Related evidence	WGR v Buckler possession order, 11 Dec 1962 (EV-0030)

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Quotation (verbatim): Exchanges involving Sir Keith Joseph, George Thomas and James Callaghan on WGR; the Minister met WGR’s chairman and general manager.

Fits with: WGR had direct lines to ministers on leasehold policy in the weeks around the 11 December 1962 WGR v Buckler possession order. The 1946 debate names “Western Ground Rents or the Mountjoy Estate” as separate ground landlords, so the 1938 sale did not take all Bute/Mountjoy property.

Cuts against: Nothing in the texts mentions Llandough, Great House Farm or the Buckler or Williams families. No link to the case is shown; this is not evidence of government involvement in the case.

Notes: Context only.

Catalogued by Sion’s Tab agent, 20 Oct 2026, from research of 16–20 Oct 2026 (free online sources only).

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