§ Sir John StanleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will place in the Library a copy of his current guidance to planning inspectors on their conduct of local public inquiries into planning appeals;
(2) if he will place in the Library a copy of his current instructions to the planning inspectorate as to which planning appeals may be determined by a planning inspectorate without being referred to Ministers.
§ Mr. HowardGuidance on the conduct of planning inquiries is contained in chapter B3 of the planning inspectors' handbook. The criteria for recovery of planning appeals for decision by the Secretary of State are set out in paragraph 36 of the "Planning: Appeals, Call-in and Major Public Inquiries—the Government's response to the fifth report from the Evironment Committee, Session 1985–86" (Cm. 43). Both documents are in the Library.