HL Deb 05 April 1971 vol 317 cc192-4WA
LORD GREENWOOD OF ROSSEN-DALE

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What are the more than 1,000 individual powers on which Central Government can dictate to local government referred to by the Secretary of State for the Environment in his speech at Scarborough on March 21.

LORD SANDFORD

The general nature of these controls is described in paragraphs 63 and 65 of the previous Government's White Paper on The Reform of Local Government in England (Cmnd. 4276).

House adjourned at twenty-nine minutes before one o'clock.