§ Mr. Dalyellasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if, in the light of Paragraph 34 of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Environment, he will arrange that river purification boards be retained as separate authorities; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellI have carefully considered this recommendation of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, but I do not think it provides grounds for altering the decision based on the recommendations of another Royal Commission—on Local Government in Scotland—that regional authorities should be made responsible for river purification.