§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth dated 15 October referring to Sunday markets,Official Report, column 621, if he will set out the variety of statutory powers that local authorities have to control Sunday markets; and what assessment he has made as to how effective these powers have so far proved to be;
(2) pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth dated 15 October referring to Sunday markets, Official Report, column 621, if he will give the geographical location of each Sunday market;
(3) pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth dated 15 October referring to Sunday markets, Official Report, column 621, how many representations his Department has received for each of the last three years.
§ Mr. AtkinsMy hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Planning set out local authorities' statutory powers to control markets in his reply on 22 October,Official Report, column 39 to an earlier question from my hon. Friend. We are not aware of any widespread local authority concern about these powers. The Department has no information about the geographical location of each Sunday market.
Information about the number of representations the Department has received about Sunday markets in the last three years is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.