HC Deb 28 January 1994 vol 236 cc443-4W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he intends to involve the Minister for Local Government when considering the Government's response to the final recommendations of the Local Government Commission on Yorkshire, Humberside and Lincolnshire.

Mr. Gummer

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 29 November 1993,Official Report, column 325.

Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the occasions when either he or Ministers in his Department have publicly advocated specific changes in the local government map of England when the Local Government Commission was in the process of reviewing that area.

Mr. Curry

It is the policy of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and Ministers in this Department who will be involved in decisions on changes to local government structure, not to comment on specific changes in an area which the Local Government Commission is in the process of reviewing. I am not aware of any breaches of this policy.