Clause 35 - Interpretation of Chapter 1
Local Government Bill
9:15 am
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight, Conservative)
I am glad that my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest, West started the debate on the clause, because many other clauses are covered by the same interpretation of a local authority. Used in conjunction with other clauses, it enables the Secretary of State to pay to a local authority of his choice a grant amounting to 100 per cent. of that local authority's expenditure. If he decided, for example, to be particularly beneficent to the Isle of Wight council—