Clause 2 - Power to create combined fire and rescue authorities
Fire and Rescue Services Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Richard Younger-Ross (Shadow Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Local Government & the Regions; Teignbridge, Liberal Democrat)
Thank you, Sir Nicholas. I hear exactly what you say and I shall follow your instructions.
The issues greatly concern my constituents. At lunchtime, I was dealing with an e-mail from a lady in Newton Abbot about regional assemblies. She thought that she had heard a BBC reporter saying that we already had regional assemblies, and I had to write back to her to say, ''I know that the Government can spin and move things fast, but even the ODPM cannot move that fast to create those bodies.'' There is a genuine concern on the matter.