To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will take steps to repeal the legislation making it the duty of local authorities to provide caravan sites for gipsies.

No. My right hon. Friend informed the House, in a written reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Sir H. Rossi) on 6 February last year,—Official Report, Vol. 109, columns 856–58—that a review had been completed and that there was to be no amendment of the present law.