Clause 22 - Payments to Electoral Commission
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill
6:15 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
Does the Under-Secretary have a view on why the fixed proportion of the cost range here appears to be higher than the suggested fixed proportion of the cost range for dealing with the local government reviews? The Minister for Local Government and the Regions suggested that the range there was quite narrow, and the lower end a large proportion compared with the upper end, because of fixed costs. Why are the fixed costs here not the same proportion of the range?