Part of Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland) Bill. – in the House of Commons at on 26 April 1929.
I think I am correct in saying this. If a county council appoints a committee or a sub-committee for definite purposes of its own, that is covered by the provisions of the Bill. The question of the district council is a totally different matter. The district council is a body meeting within its own local area, and there has not at any time been any question of making payment to such a body. It is quite true that the central body may, if it sees fit, transfer certain detailed work to be done by some of these district bodies, but the district councils have certain definite duties in their own districts totally apart from the central bodies, duties which they carry out in their own areas. There can be no question that there is any dubiety that this extension of payment was definitely and deliberately restricted to the larger county authorities, and it must rest at that.