Clause 4 - Assistance from certain local authorities
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
10:45 am
Mr Tony McNulty (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Harrow East, Labour)
As I understand it, it is a district council where there is no county council. There are districts with no counties, counties with no districts, metropolitan district councils and London boroughs. That is the extent of the unitary level of local government in this country. There is no need for a catch-all unitary phrase beyond that. Unless someone among those to my left, whose presence in this Room we do not recognise, falls over, I shall maintain that.