§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what will be the effect on the implementation and monitoring of the Department of the Environment's circular 21/82 "Guidelines for Aggregate Provision in England and Wales", in the event of the abolition of the Greater London council.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneI refer the hon. Member to my reply to him on 24 May, at column 464.
§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment, in the event of the abolition of the Greater London council, what arrangements he proposes to make for the provision of scientific services on a metropolitan scale.
§ Mr. WaldegraveI refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend, in reply to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Bury, North (Mr. Burt) on 4 May, at columns264–66.
§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment, in the event of the abolition of the Greater London council, what authority will service the office of Lord Lieutenant of London.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe Government are consulting representatives of the Lords Lieutenants about arrangements for support after the abolition of the GLC and the metropolitan county councils.
§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will clarify the Government's policy on grant-related expenditure assessments for those boroughs which inherit a rate burden greater than current expenditure levels approved by the Government in the event of the abolition of the Greater London council.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe boroughs will need increased GREs to take account of the functions they take on from the GLC. These will be determined on the same principles as apply to authorities elsewhere in the country, subject to allowances for higher labour costs in London. The Government would be glad to consider representations about GREs for specific services.
§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the London borough councils counted as being in favour of the proposal and those 248W counted as being against the proposal in table 4 (housing) of part II of the report of the consultation on "Streamlining the Cities", Cmnd. 9063.
§ Sir George YoungI shall answer this question shortly.
§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment which local authority association is counted as against the proposal in table 4 (Housing) of part II of the report of the consultation on "Streamlining the Cities", Cmnd. 9063.
§ Sir George YoungI must ask the hon. Member to seek the views of the local authority associations direct.
§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many responses to the Government's consultation paper "Streamlining the Cities: Housing" supported the proposal to repeal without replacement the Greater London council's statutory duty to undertake and provide housing research and information; and how many expressed concern about it or opposed it.
§ Sir George YoungOne and 26 responses, respectively.
§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many of the responses received from other groups and individuals referred to in table 4 (housing) of part II of the report of the consultation on "Streamlining the Cities", Cmnd. 9063, concerned Greater London council provision for the single homeless.
§ Sir George YoungOut of all the responses received from bodies other than local authorities and their associations to the consultation paper "Streamlining the Cities: Housing", some 90 concerned Greater London council provision for the single homeless.
§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what responses he has received from the Confederation of British Industry and the London chamber of commerce and industry to the planning proposals for London in the White Paper Cmnd. 9063 "Streamlining the Cities".
§ Mr. MacfarlaneThe views of the Confederation of British Industry and the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the planning proposals for London form part of their general response to the White Paper, and the hon. Member should approach those bodies for details of that response.