§ Mr. ClaphamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what decision has been made about a name for the new agency to be created by the merger of the Countryside Commission and those parts of the Rural Development Commission not being transferred to the regional development agencies. [61129]
§ Mr. MeacherI have accepted a recommendation made jointly by the two Commissions that the name for the new body should be the Countryside Agency. This name will be included in the order under section 35 of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 which will effect the formation of the new body, and which will be laid before Parliament in the New Year.
6WThe Commissions also propose that this name should be accompanied for day-to-day purposes by the strapline—working for people and places in rural England.