Clause 27
10:45 am
Mark Field (Cities of London and Westminster, Conservative)
Is the Minister not concerned that the nature of the provision goes to the heart of what I suspect will be an ongoing concern for both individual businesses and large business organisations: additionality? If a programme is effectively already in place after much thought and consultation with local businesses, and some sort of plan has been devised in the preceding years, waiting for BRS to come on board goes to the very heart of concerns about additionality. I am not saying that it is an easy problem for the Minister to grapple with, but we risk making business more cynical, particularly in these difficult times, about having to pay for something through a BRS that it believes should already have been paid for.