§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) which sectors of the South-West regional planning zone are excluded from the area covered by the new South-West Scotland Development Authority;
(2) if he will list the organisations and public bodies consulted before the decision was taken to establish the new South-West Scotland Development Authority;
(3) which districts of the proposed South-West regional local government authority have been excluded from the area covered by the South-West Scotland Development Authority.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellThe South-West of Scotland Development Authority is an association of local planning authorities—Dumfries Burgh Council, Dumfries shire County Council, Kirkcudbrightshire County Council and Wigtownshire County Council—set up on the initiative of the authorities and with my consent under Section 2(2) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act,34W 1947. The combined area of these planning authorities makes up the South-West planning sub-region and the proposed South-West local government region, except that it does not include the burgh and district of Girvan. Ayrshire County Council, which is the planning authority for the Girvan area, was consulted before the establishment of the new body, but decided not to participate.