Clause 23 - ''Local authority''
Local Government Bill
3:45 pm
Mr Nick Raynsford (Minister of State (Local and Regional Government), Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Greenwich and Woolwich, Labour)
Thank you, Mr. Conway. I shall immediately retreat from national parks to the principle behind the amendment, which is to remove the flexibility to allow additional specific bodies without the same structure or purpose as a local authority to become a beneficiary of the capital finance regime. That is a sensible provision, for the reasons that I outlined earlier. I suggest that the hon. Member for Cotswold withdraws the amendment.
Mr. Turner rose—