These are complicated issues and I am not totally sure that I followed all that, and I do not know whether anyone else did, either. The Minister seemed to be reading out a brief from civil servants. Could he provide a note with a thorough explanation of the issue? None of us wants to end up with mayors who need to create transport systems but then find that they do not have the powers to borrow in order to do so.
Cities and Local Government Devolution [Lords] Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Clive Betts
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 21 October 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Cities and Local Government Devolution [Lords] Bill.
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