Clause 36
Greater London Authority Bill
6:15 pm
Michael Gove (Shadow Minister (Housing), Communities and Local Government; Surrey Heath, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Under-Secretary for that clarification, but the fact remains on the record that Tower Hamlets and Newham have particularly bad recycling records. However, it is not my intention fruitlessly to criticise the local authority or the Government, because most local authorities in London have unique problems when it comes to recycling. It is right to compare London boroughs on their recycling records, but it is also appropriate to recognise that the situation is slightly easier in Sutton than it is in Tower Hamlets. One reason for that is that central London boroughs are more likely to have multi-storey developments, and we all know that flats and tenement blocks are the sorts of development in which it is more difficult to achieve higher recycling rates.