Clause 11 - Use of capital receipts
Local Government Bill
4:30 pm
Mr Nick Raynsford (Minister of State (Local and Regional Government), Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Greenwich and Woolwich, Labour)
I hope that I can cast a bit of light on this. I understand that, for obvious reasons, the LGA does not normally comment on matters that involve the distribution of resources between authorities. The Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives in the LGA supported the view that was carried, but the Labour group did not support it. That was an unfortunate example of a political division within the LGA on a matter of distribution. Such things would normally be avoided. That is the information that we have on what happened.