§ Mr. Hattonasked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will reconsider the local government representation on the Action Group for a Regional Industrial Strategy in the North-West in order to obtain the viewpoint of representatives from each of the four types of local government, namely, the shire and the metropolitan county councils and the shire and the metropolitan district councils.
Mr. Alan WilliamsI am concerned that all proper arrangements for consultation will be made. But it is necessary to keep an advisory committee of this kind to a manageable size.