Clause 2
Business Rate Supplements Bill
12:00 pm
Bob Neill (Shadow Minister, Communities and Local Government; Bromley and Chislehurst, Conservative)
As hon. Members will appreciate, the effect of the amendments is to restrict the scope of the definition of “levying authority” to the Greater London authority. I can be brief because this harks back to our earlier debate, but I was not convinced by the Minister’s reply, for the reasons already stated. We believe that it is possible to decouple Crossrail from the roll-out of BRS elsewhere nationally. Amendments 22 and 23 amend the definition of levying authority in clause 2 and the other amendments are consequential, changing the references to levying authorities elsewhere in the Bill. The arguments have been made; I need not say more.