Clause 16 - ''Capital expenditure''
Local Government Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Derek Conway (Old Bexley and Sidcup, Conservative)
I remind the Committee that with this we are discussing the following amendments:
No. 78, in
clause 16, page 6, line 31, leave out subsection (2) and add—
'(2) The Secretary of State may request the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy or the Comptroller and Auditor General at any time to provide guidelines and advice on what expenditure of local authorities shall be treated for the purposes of this Chapter as being, or not being, capital expenditure, and shall lay any such guidelines or advice so received before Parliament.
(3) The Secretary of State may direct a local authority to follow any guidelines and advice laid before Parliament under subsection (1)'.
No. 44, in
clause 16, page 6, line 35, leave out from beginning to end of line 37.
When we adjourned for lunch the hon. Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh) had the Floor but the Under-Secretary was intervening. Had the hon. Gentleman completed his intervention?