Clause 25
10:30 am
Philip Dunne (Whip, Whips; Ludlow, Conservative)
It is a pleasure to welcome you back to the Committee, Mr. Atkinson, in what might be our final sitting.
If I may, I will reiterate the point that I made on the audit of information under the clause. I have not tabled an amendment, but I ask the Minister to consider on Report expanding the remit of the clause to place on a levying authority that chooses to introduce the BRS an obligation to make information on the progress of the project available to the public. That could be done not only through the authority’s accounts, but through a statement that could be made available to the BRS payers—say, annually—so that there was accountability to those payers for the levy that they have been charged.