Clause 1
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [Lords]
11:15 am
Paul Goodman (Shadow Minister, Communities and Local Government; Wycombe, Conservative)
I do not envy the Minister for having to take this Bill through, but I am going to try to approach this in a different way from my right hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon. He gave a perfectly sensible example, which we all accept, of a constituent who comes into the Member of Parliament’s office and does not know what their local authority does. There will be a certain number of them each year. The simple question is: how many of those constituents are going to get an appreciation of their local authority’s democratic arrangements as a result of this Bill?
Mr. Curryrose—