Clause 1 - Closure notice
Anti-social Behaviour Bill
10:45 am
Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath, Conservative)
On the hon. Lady's point about two-tier local authority areas, which is the situation in my part of Surrey, giving the local authority chief executive the power would not mean that one chief executive always has to ask another chief executive. We are not talking about extra complications. The amendment says simply that any chief executive, with the backing of his or her local authority, should have the power to take the initiative.