§ Mr. Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out proposals for (a) issuing from his Department 476W certificates of approval for fall-out shelter designs submitted by manufacturing or constructing companies, (b) guidelines on the suitability of types of shelter designs and construction and (c) measures to discredit and prevent the sale to the public by unscrupulous firms of unsuitable or inadequate shelter structures.
§ Mr. BrittanBy the end of the year we aim to publish guidelines on a range of domestic shelters. We have no plans to issue certificates of approval for particular designs. The existing law should be adequate to deal with the sale of shelters which would fail to provide the level of protection claimed for them, but we shall keep the position under review.