§ Mr. Elystan Morganasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give an undertaking that he will be prepared to reconsider the proposals contained in his consultative document on reorganisation of local government in Wales following the report of the Crowther Commission on the Constitution.
§ Mr. Peter ThomasThe Government will give full weight to the Commission's report, but like their predecessors do not consider that the establishment of the Commission should be a bar to action.
§ Mr. Elystan Morganasked the Secretary of State for Wales what evidence was received from bodies or persons in Wales which led him in his consultative document on local government reorganisation in Wales to propose that employees of councils should not be eligible to stand as candidates for those authorities.
§ Mr. Peter ThomasThe Government have proposed that the principle of the existing law should be retained. This is 63W supported by the local authority associations. I have received no representations on the issue from bodies or persons in Wales, apart from one inquiry from an hon. Member about the law relating to a particular case.