Clause 47 - Abolition of requirement to contract out waste disposal functions
Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill
2:45 pm

Mr David Ruffley (Assistant Chief Whip, Whips; Bury St Edmunds, Conservative)
This seems to be an innocuous clause, because it is short, but I am concerned about why it appears in the Bill, as it represents a change of policy, based, I suggest, on some political or economic dogma on the part of the new Labour Government. I do not know whether they are desperate to show their anti-Conservative—
