HC Deb 24 January 1973 vol 849 c154W
36. Mr. Roper

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when the names for the new local authorities in England will be announced.

Mr. Graham Page

Consultations have already been initiated. My right hon. and learned Friend hopes to make an order naming the metropolitan districts by about the middle of February and a separate order naming the non-metropolitan districts by the end of March.