Planning Bill
6:00 pm
Katrine Sporle: The very straightforward answer to that last question is no. We are experiencing no inspectors getting on their bikes at all. I repeat what I said to you earlier: we are not in competition with local authorities and we would not be in competition with an independent planning commission. Each of us has different jobs to do. In working in partnership with the Department for Communities and Local Government we have always said that we see ourselves as having a role to play in being able to work with the IPC, particularly on the training and skilling of inspectors, either to provide an inquiry service or to go on to become commissioners in the future. There is no competition between the two bodies.