Clause 18 - Isles of Scilly
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill
11:45 am
Mr Christopher Leslie (Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office; Shipley, Labour)
However much I might seek to legislate, I cannot bring the Isles of Scilly any closer to Cornwall. That would be a very difficult test. To pursue that analogy, one might suggest that just because the Outer Hebrides were not a part of mainland Scotland, they were not Scottish. That
would be rather an odd way to make an argument about the Isles of Scilly. Given the Scilly arrangement that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned, I commend the clause.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 18 ordered to stand part of the Bill.