§ Mr. Nicholas BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement about the progress being made by the Metropolitan police in transferring their radio frequencies from the VHF commercial broadcasting frequencies to new transmision frequencies; and if he will list for each police force the date by which they propose to complete their transfer to non-commercial frequencies.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe Metropolitan police completed the transfer in December 1989. All other police forces in England and Wales completed their transfer by the end of July 1989, some five months before the deadline of 31 December 1989 agreed at the world administrative radio conference in 1979.