§ Dr. Edmund Marshallasked the Secretary of State for tie Environment when a reply will be sent to the letter from the hon. Member for Goole, dated 1 October 1930 and addressed to the Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Shipley (Mr. Fox), about the scope of the Land Compensation Act 1973.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeI have been asked to reply.
I wrote to the hon. Member on 27 November. I apologise for the delay in replying but the letter raised detailed technical points which required careful consideration. The hon. Member is developing a practice of asking parliamentary questions when replies to his letters ace delayed but I cannot undertake to produce an immediate reply whenever he does this if more time is required to produce a satisfactory response.