Clause 30
Greater London Authority Bill
12:30 pm
Bob Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst, Conservative)
With respect, my argument deals with that point. On those rare occasions—there should be every endeavour to ensure that they are rare—people will accept their interests being overridden only if there is the maximum transparency and they have the maximum assurance that they have had a fair crack of the whip, to use a colloquial phrase. My concerns are related to the definition of “strategic”, which is potentially too wide and will therefore be used in too many such cases, and to the procedure by which it is done. People will not have confidence that they have had a fair crack of the whip before that hard decision is taken.