Clause 43 - Arrangements with respect to business improvement districts
Local Government Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Edward Davey (Kingston and Surbiton, Liberal Democrat)
No, but we believe in courtesy. I thought that hon. Members who represented constituencies such as Cotswold would understand the importance of courtesy.
The final set of arguments, which I began to deal with and which I shall elaborate on now, are the bureaucratic arguments. I have been given a copy of a document written for the Minister by one of his officials in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. It sets out 16 arguments against what we propose. I call those bureaucratic arguments, because when I analysed them with the help of specialists in the property business and all those private sector bodies that have an interest in formulating and developing BIDs throughout the country, they rejected them all and persuaded me that none of them holds water. This debate gives us an opportunity to go through all 16 and knock them down.