HC Deb 23 June 1994 vol 245 cc251-2W
Mr. Nigel Griffiths

To ask the President of the Board of Trade which local authorities have approached his Department for their views on the contracting-out of trading standards and/or environmental health enforcement; what proposals were made by those authorities; and what position his Department took on such proposals.

Mr. McLoughlin

There have been no such approaches.