Clause 17 - Payments to Electoral Commission
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill
11:45 am
Mr Lawrie Quinn (Scarborough and Whitby, Labour)
So I should. That is why we are here—at least that is why I am here.
I am sure that the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge knows the structure of local government in the north-east as well as I do, so why does he think that there would be such a gap between
the cost in the north-east and that in Yorkshire and Humberside? My understanding is that the number of local authorities in the north-east is equivalent to the number of local authorities that are not unitary authorities in Yorkshire and Humberside. North Yorkshire is the largest county in England—