§ LORD WINTERBOTTOMasked Her Majesty's Government:
When the Report of the Committee under Lord Nugent of Guildford on Defence land holdings will be published.
§ THE SECRETARY or STATE FOR DEFENCE (LORD CARRINGTON)The Report of the Defence Lands Committee was published to-day. In view of the size and detailed nature of the Report a brief Explanatory Memorandum was published simultaneously as Cmnd. 5364 in order to focus public attention on the main issues involved. Copies of the Report are available in the Printed Paper Office.
I am most grateful to my noble friend Lord Nugent and his colleagues on the Committee for this valuable Report, which includes recommendations of a general nature as well as the examination of some 465 individual sites amounting to some 629,000 acres. I hope to make an announcement on the recommendations in the Report later this year.
House adjourned at sixteen minutes before nine o'clock.