Business Rate Supplements Bill

I am not certain that I am following the noble Lord’s argument. I am not quite sure what he would want to see in the Bill which is not expressed already in terms of that partnership. One of the problems that we may be wrestling with is that, because the partnerships will be different in each area—for example, there may be third-sector partners in some areas, or levying authorities or different sorts of private and public partnerships—we may not want to identify just one partner in the way that the noble Lord suggested, bearing in mind that we shall have to try to represent and encourage a range of partnerships.