HC Deb 25 February 1980 vol 979 cc479-80W
Mr. Winnick

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when the Walsall housing investment programme for 1980–81 will be known.

Mr. Stanley

Local authorities were informed of their housing investment programme allocations for 1980–81 on 21 February.

Dr. Edmund Marshall

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he will be able to answer the ques-

and in local authorities which might result from abolition of dog licensing in Great Britain, but they would probably be very small and thinly spread; staff effort devoted to administration of the dog licensing system in the central Government amounts to a fraction of a man-year in each of a number of Government departments, and no jobs would be lost.

Mr. Banks

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of the likely deficit on the collection of dog licence fees for 1980–81.

Mr. Fox

About £1.5 million.