Business Rate Supplements Bill
12:00 pm
Bob Neill (Shadow Minister, Communities and Local Government; Bromley and Chislehurst, Conservative)
Welcome to the Chair, Mrs. Dean.
I preface my first question by telling the Minister that I am sure he recalls that my party did not vote against the Bill on Second Reading clearly because of the inclusion of Crossrail and an extension of the measure to the rest of the country. If there is a desire elsewhere in the country—the Mayor of London wishes to use the measure for Crossrail only—why were officials of the LGA, when they gave evidence, unable to name a single local authority that desired to take up the BRS power at this time?