asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received concerning an alternative site for a police training centre for the area covered by the North-East district police authority committee; and if he will make a statement.

Following representations from the police authority and Chief Constables' Committee for the area about the adverse effects of aircraft noise on the work of the present centre at Dish-forth, the possibility of moving the regional training centre to an alternative site at Middleton St. George, Teesside, will be considered by the Police Training Council at its next meeting on 23 November.