To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report(a) those services which local authorities must presently provide free of charge; (b) those services for which local authorities are permitted to charge in accordance with regulations or primary legislation, where the charges are set in those regulations of primary legislation, where the charges are set in those regulations or primary legislation or otherwise by the Government and (3) those services for which local authorities are permitted to charge in accordance with regulations or primary legislation, where the charges are for local discretion.

[holding answer 19 April 1989]:This information is not available in precisely the form requested by the hon. Member. I am placing in the Library such information as is available about local authorities' charging powers.