HC Deb 02 November 1995 vol 265 cc401-2W
Mr. Cran

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if it is his intention to direct the Local Government Commission to conduct reviews to establish the case for or against new parishes. [40597]

Sir Paul Beresford

The Local Government Commission is devoting its attention to the structure reviews of individual districts which we have directed it to carry out. When these have been completed, its next priority must be the periodic electoral reviews that it has a statutory duty to undertake. Against this background, we expect to direct it to carry out only a few, if any, parishing reviews over the next few months.

Mr. Cran

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects the Local Government Commission to complete all outstanding local government district and other reviews. [40594]

Sir Paul Beresford

We expect the Local Government Commission to complete the district reviews by 2 January 1996.