Clause 69
Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill
10:00 am

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Philip Dunne (Ludlow, Conservative)

I would like to ask the Under-Secretary a question about subsection (3), which states that a parish must have at least 150 electors to create a council. How was that figure arrived at? The people in a number of sparsely populated rural areas, where fewer than 150 people live spread out over a large area, might feel a sense of community identity and want to constitute themselves as a council. What representations did she receive from the Local Government Association or other bodies to justify that figure?

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