Clause 20 - Directions
Local Government Bill
3:15 pm
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight, Conservative)
It does not take a great deal of prescience to ask officials to look back and answer the Minister's question, if that person is the Minister. What takes a little more prescience is to ask officials to look back and anticipate the questions that may come from the Opposition. The Minister has not answered the question that was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Cotswold, which was on what occasions directions of that sort have been used Why was it necessary for them to act so rapidly that the regulatory procedure was inappropriate?