§ Mr. Nicholas Bakerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the annual cost of maintaining the Countryside Commission.
§ Mr. MonroThe cost of salaries and administrative expenses incurred by the Countryside Commission in 1978–79 was£951,582.
§ Mr. Nicholas Bakerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement about the future of the Countryside Commission.
§ Mr. MonroI refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mr. Lyell) on 29 November.—[Vol. 974, c. 793.]