§ Mr. Reidasked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will institute an immediate feasibility study into the future of the Edinburgh Centre of the Civil Service College, with particular reference to the proposals from the Local Staff Side Committee that the creation of a Scottish Assembly will give rise to a wide range of training needs, including those relating to the interaction of central departments, local authorities and other bodies, and that the centre should therefore be developed as a public sector staff college on a pilot basis; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisI will consider these representations in consultation with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland. But I should point out that just as the future of the Edinburgh Centre of the Civil Service College is being considered in the context of the need to limit public expenditure any proposals for alternative use would have to be looked at in the same light.