Mr. Geraint Morganasked the Secretary of State for Wales why, inasmuch as it is proposed, under the provisions of the Local Government Bill, that substantial portions of the local authority areas of the Aled and Hiraethog Rural District Councils should be transferred to the new county of Gwynedd, neither of those authorities have been consulted by his Department with regard to the recent change of plan by the Government as to the number of districts to be included within that county.
§ Mr. Peter ThomasThey have both been consulted. Because of a clerical error the consultation letters to the three county district councils in Denbighshire were dispatched two days later than to the other authorities. All three have sent me replies.