§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will place in the Library copies of responses received from local authorities to his inquiries of June 1985 concerning rate demands;
(2) when he expects to publish his new rules governing rate demands and background information accompanying them.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe Rate Demands and Notice of Rates and precepts Rules 1985 (S.I. 1985/1486) were laid before Parliament on 30 September 1985 and came into operation on 22 October 1985. It is not my right hon. Friend's normal practice to place in the Library copies of responses to documents issued for purposes of consultation.