Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17th June 1992.
Will my hon. Friend confirm that a priority of the local government review is to preserve community identity? In the interests of testing real local opinion, does he agree that in rural areas such as Cambridgeshire it would make sense to start at grass roots, at local parish council level, and work upwards, rather than have something imposed from the county council downwards?