Clause 23 - ''Local authority''
Local Government Bill
3:45 pm
Mrs Valerie Davey (Bristol West, Labour)
The Minister has listed those authorities as examples, but they are not ones with which I am terribly familiar. How accountable are those authorities to the people in their area? Are they
directly, or indirectly, elected? How will the people on whom, I presume, the levy may fall, hold the authorities to account?