§ Mr. CranTo ask the Attorney-General what representations he has received from the Association of District Councils regarding Sunday trading laws.
§ The Attorney-GeneralThe Association of District Councils wrote to my predecessor about the enforcement of the Sunday trading provisions of the Shops Act 1950 in the course of 1986. He received no further representations from the association and I have received none. As I mentioned in a reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Orpington (Mr. Stanbrook) on 18 April last, at column297, I recently asked the association for information concerning the scale of the enforcement effort being made in pursuance of the responsibility placed upon local authorities by the Act.
Statistics on the number of judges, 5, 10, 20 and 30 years ago Circuit judges High Court judges Court of Appeal House of Lords As at 1 June 1988 405 80 27 9 5 years ago 346 77 18 9 10 years ago 290 72 16 9
County court judges High Court judges Court of Appeal House of Lords 20 years ago 89 61 11 9 30 years ago 69 42 8 9