Clause 18
Greater London Authority Bill
2:00 pm
Jim Fitzpatrick (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry; Poplar and Canning Town, Labour)
It is good to see you back in the Chair this afternoon, Mr. O’Hara. Before the Committee was adjourned, the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst was kind enough to allow me the opportunity to intervene on him. I had only one word left to utter, but it would be unfair on him just to say “satisfy” and then sit down. The substantive question that I was asking was whether he would like to take on board the valid point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd’s Bush that no consultation, no matter how thorough, will ever be able to satisfy 100 per cent. of respondents.