Clause 2
Planning
6:45 pm
John Healey (Minister of State (Local Government), Department for Communities and Local Government; Wentworth, Labour)
As I was responsible for answering that question, I was following it particularly closely. It was not actually about the code of conduct for the GLA, but about the discharge of its scrutiny functions and the statutory basis on which it conducts them. That is something in which her hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst is obviously expert, having been a member of the GLA for some time, as he remains. I thought that his points about the shortcomings of the GLA’s role in carrying out its proper function of scrutiny were well made. He obviously made them from a particular position of expertise.