§ Mr. Ralph HowellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Stockport (Mr. Favell) of 30 January,Official Report, column 22, he will give for each available category of local government staff the numbers in (a) 1979 and (b) 1989, or the latest date for which figures are available, showing the net and percentage change in each case.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe information is as follows:
the summer, and that the amendments will come into operation early next year. The intention is that revised approved documents will be published at the same time the regulations are laid. Consultation papers on other parts of the regulations will be issued during the course of this year, but it is too early to say when these amendments are likely to be made.