I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend’s observation about the great opportunities we are giving to the council tax payer. Does he also agree that the perverse consequence of the previous system was that council policies were often skewed towards obtaining the result required to get approval by the Audit Commission, rather than towards the priorities that the council tax payers would have wished for?
Local Audit and Accountability Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Robert Neill
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 28 October 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Local Audit and Accountability Bill [Lords].
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