§ Mr. Stephen Rossasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will make arrangements to ensure that the minutes of meetings of regional economic planning councils are made available to county and district councillors of the authorities within the region.
§ Mr. Guy BarnettNo. To do so would hamper the councils in their task of taking a broad and independent view of the problems of their regions. Some of the advice councils give is confidential and their minutes could not be made available to councillors without being made more generally available.