§ Mr. Soleyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how often he met the chief constable in charge of the national reporting centre throughout the dispute between the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Coal Board.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThe president of the Association of Chief Police Officers has control of the centre ex officio. My right hon. and learned Friend the then Home Secretary met the two chief constables who were successively president of ACPO during the period of the dispute on a number of occasions.