Clause 36
Greater London Authority Bill
6:30 pm
Michael Gove (Shadow Minister (Housing), Communities and Local Government; Surrey Heath, Conservative)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point. It might fall outside the scope of the Committee—that has not stopped us in the past, though—to discuss whether local authorities in the west of England should be sending their waste to near Slough to be dealt with. That is only a couple of kilometres beyond the boundary of Greater London, however, and seems to be an appropriate place to be used by authorities in Hillingdon, Brent, Hounslow, Harrow and Richmond—the authorities currently using it. Yet the Mayor seemed unhappy for reasons to do not with London, but with his broader approach to waste. Again, that makes me think that we should be a little cautious about accepting the arguments advanced so ably by the hon. Member for Richmond Park.