§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the 40 recommendations in the report by Doctor Charles Legg and Marion Brion entitled "The Administration of the Rent Rebate and Rent Allowance Schemes", and indicate in each case whether the recommendation requires (a) Government action, (b) administrative action by his Department, and (c) local authority action; and in each case what action the Government are planning to implement or to encourage the implementation of the recommendation.
§ Mr. FreesonThe recommendations, many of which are more in the nature of observations than prescriptions for specific action, are too long to list, but copies of the report have been placed in the Library. The report was intended mainly for the information and practical assistance of local authorities, and has been circulated to them, with a request from the Department that each authority should consider how far it would be useful for it to adopt any of the recommendations not already in operation. One of the more important recommendations addressed to central Government related mainly to research, most of which has been or is being carried out. If the hon. Member is interested in any particular point in the report, perhaps he will write to me or to my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.