§ Mr. Spearingasked the Secretary of State for the Environment when the evidence to the Layfield Committee is to be published.
§ Mr. ShorePublication of the principal evidence submitted to the Layfield Committee together with commissioned work will take place over the next two to three weeks.
Six volmes are being published today—Appendix 1—Evidence by Government Departments, 3—Evidence by Political Parties, 4—Selected Evidence by Representative Organisations, 5—Reports on Foreign Visits, 6—The Relationship between Central and Local Government: Evidence and Commissioned Work and 9 —Rating: Evidence and Commissioned Work. The remaining volumes, Appendix 2—Evidence by the Local Authority Associations, 7—Government Grants to Local Authorities: Evidence and Commissioned Work, 8—Local Income Tax: Evidence and Commissioned Work and Annex 10—Selected Evidence in microcopy form will be published over the next two to three weeks as they become available from the printers. Copies of the appendices will be available through the Vote Office in the usual way and in the Library.