Clause 1
Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill
4:00 pm
Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool, Walton, Labour)
I understand perfectly that the Bill is regularising an irregular situation. However, my experience of delegating powers at a local level causes me concern—under a Lib Dem council, it cost the city of Liverpool hundreds of millions of pounds. Although such an approach might be efficient on one level, it can be very costly to the parent organisation.
I am not as diligent as many of my colleagues and I was not present on Second Reading, but it appears from clause 1(3) that no matter what has been done in the name of the Housing Corporation, the Bill gives it legality and authenticity. The Bill seems extremely vague about what it covers. Can the Minister enlighten me? I would hate to think that in retrospectively approving what has been happening for the past20 years, we were regularising something that should be looked at in a different way.