Clause 29
Housing and Regeneration Bill
6:14 pm
Robert Syms (Poole, Conservative)
I, too, would like a little clarification on clause 29. I may be wrong, but it seems that the Secretary of State can give the agency a role—for instance, to dispense grants. Does that mean that grants that would now be given directly to local authorities will go to the agency to be dispensed? As someone who spent 14 years in local government, my concern is that it should not be used to get around directly funding local authorities or boroughs.