§ BARONESS WHITEasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will announce whom the Secretary of State for Wales intends to appoint as Chairman of the Welsh National Water Development Authority if the Water Bill becomes law?
§ THE MINISTER OF STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SECURITY (LORD ABERDARE)If Parliament passes the Water Bill in its present form and accepts the Order, prescribing the constitution of the Welsh Authority, which my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Wales proposes to lay before it when the Bill becomes law, he intends to offer the appointment as Chairman to Lord Brecon, who has indicated that he would be happy to accept.
House adjourned at half past seven o'clock.