§ Sir Raymond PowellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the review of community fire safety to be completed. [38806]
§ Mr. George HowarthI refer my hon. Friend to the reply which my right hon. Friend gave to my hon. Friend the Member for South Ribble (Mr. Borrow) on 5 November 1997,Official Report, column 212. The Government received the report of the Community Fire Safety Task Force last autumn and made arrangements for it to be published on 3 November 1997. Copies of the report have been placed in the Library.
I announced the Government's response to the Task Force report in the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North (Ms Keeble) on 7 April 1998, Official Report, column 177.