§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in theOfficial Report the statements or speeches made by, or on behalf of, Ministers of the Crown (a) prior to July 1987 and (b) since covering any major review of the functional organisation of boundaries of local government.
§ Mr. KeyOver the 158 years since the setting up of the Royal Commission on Municipal Corporations of 1833, which can be regarded as the first major review of the functional organisations and boundaries of local government, many speeches and statements have been made by, and on behalf of, Ministers of the Crown. The most relevant to the current situation are the statements made by my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for the Environment, for Wales and for Scotland on 21 March and 22 April at columns 401 and 901.