§ Mr. Speedasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many copies of the Layfield Report on Local Government Finance have been sold and distributed free, respectively, since publication.
§ Mr. Guy BarnettWe have no information to hand about the number of copies of the Layfield Report which have been sold to date. As is the normal practice with publication of an important 615W document of this kind, copies were provided on a "need-to-know" basis at no charge, to members of the Layfield Committee and their main advisors, to Members of both Houses, to local authorities and their associations, to the national Press and specialist journals. Including official use copies, some 1,500 copies of the Report were distributed on this basis.