Part of Deferred Division – in the House of Commons at 9:30 pm on 18 December 2002.
How can the Minister, based on the White Paper, assert in the preamble that the activities that would be carried out by the assembly are those
Xcarried out mainly by central government bodies," especially in respect of regional economic development? The only transfer of a central Government responsibility for regional economic development in the White Paper is the appointment of the chair and members of a regional development agency. Everything else is already done either regionally or locally.