asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish, for each shire and metropolitan county, and for the area covered by the former Greater London council, his Department's assessment of civil defence preparedness under each of the headings cited in schedule 2 of the Civil Defence (General Local Authority Functions) Regulations 1983, relating to plans, emergency centres and communications.

No. These assessments were provisional and intended only for use in the bilateral discussions with individual local authorities. A general report on progress in the implementation of the 1983 regulations is in the Library