HC Deb 26 January 1990 vol 165 cc936-8W
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the future of magistrates court service in Wales.

Mr. John Patten

We are still considering the proposals in the report of the "Scrutiny of Magistrates' Courts 1989" directed to the reconstitution of the administration of the magistrates courts service in both England and Wales as a single executive agency.