Orders of the Day — Rating (Former Agricultural Premises and Rural Shops) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 5:15 pm on 30 April 2001.

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Mr. Lembit Öpik:

This is the key issue for me in the Bill. Is my hon. Friend aware that the "big smoke" in Montgomeryshire—indeed, in midWales—is Newtown, whose population is 11,000? The Bill will be extremely helpful for the shopkeepers there, yet they might in part be excluded because of the limitation that my hon. Friend has described.