Clause 118
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [Lords]
9:30 am
Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth and Camborne, Liberal Democrat)
That was an amusing intervention from my hon. Friend. It is clear that, while we have been debating the Bill, there have been considerable changes—not only to the Secretary of State responsible for such matters, but to Ministers. I congratulate the new Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury—I understand that she has been moved in the past 24 hours. I wonder whether Ministers, Departments and their policies are moving beyond that paper. Will the Minister responsible respond to that? More generally, how do the powers that the Secretary of State mentioned in the newspaper yesterday relate to multi-area agreements?