§ Mr. Simeonsasked the Attorney-General why Luton was omitted from the list of High Court and Crown Court centres, in view of the fact that it was recommended as a Crown Court on the South-Eastern Circuit by the Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions.
§ The Attorney-GeneralThe Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions recommended that Luton should become a 2nd-tier centre when courts become available there. The answer which I gave to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Southport (Mr. Percival) on 26th January referred to those places which my noble Friend the Lord Chancellor had provisionally decided should be court centres immediately after the coming into operation of the Courts Bill. No decision has yet been made with regard to the Commission's recommendation for Luton.—[Vol. 810, c. 98.]