HC Deb 04 December 1985 vol 88 c310

Sir Nicholas Bonsor, supported by Mr. Neil Thorne, Dr. John Gilbert, Sir Antony Buck, Mr. Robert Banks, Mr. Stephen Ross, Mr. Gerald Bowden, Mr. Robert Maclennan, Mr. Charles Kennedy, Mr. Nicholas Soames and Mr. Richard Shepherd, presented a Bill to enable local authorities to use their civil defence resources in connection with emergencies and disasters unconnected with any form of hostile attack by a foreign power: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 21 February and to be printed. [Bill 25.]