Written evidence to be reported to the House
Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill
2:16 pm
Q143Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Devonport) (Lab): In the regulatory impact assessment to the local government White Paper, the Government accept that the costs indicated for restructuring are broad brush. Obviously, we have seen some of the criticism produced by academics of the way in which the costs are being assessed. Some interesting figures have been bandied about.
Do you accept that some figures that are based clearly on what happened in and around Banham probably cannot be moved across to the current situation because local authorities are now much more under the microscope in terms of their financial probity and so on. Therefore, those authorities that are likely to be going forward will be doing so from a much better informed position than some of those that had looked at it under Banham.