§ Mr. Roseasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it remains his intention to leave the decision-making in respect of meetings and demonstrations likely to provoke racial hostility in the hands of local chief constables or whether he intends to assume such powers.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesI would refer my hon. Friend to the replies which I gave to Questions by the hon. Member for Manchester, Withington (Mr. Silvester) on 17th November and by my hon. 579W Friend, the Member for Salford, East (Mr. Allaun) on 15th December.—[Vol. 939, c. 752 Vol. 941, c. 892.]