HC Deb 19 May 1971 vol 817 cc298-9W
68. Mr. Clinton Davis

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will take steps to enable a person imprisoned by order of a magistrates' court for non-payment of rates to appeal to a court of quarter sessions.

Mr. Graham Page

The machinery for rate recovery is to be reviewed by the Government in the light of the recommendations of the Committee on the Enforcement of Judgment Debts, which reported in 1969. The Committee recommended, among other things, the abolition of imprisonment for non-payment of rates. I have no proposals for amending the law in advance of this review.