Regional Select Committee (London)

Part of Consolidated Fund Bill – in the House of Commons at 10:19 pm on 14 December 2009.

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Photo of David Burrowes David Burrowes Shadow Minister (Justice) 10:19, 14 December 2009

My hon. Friend talks about the election, and obviously Boris Johnson was elected as Mayor for London. Is not the concern that the genie of devolved government has got out of the bottle and that that genie is now blue, in the form of Boris Johnson? The problem is that the Government want to put that genie back in the bottle, but they cannot do that and so we have a costly, expensive, waste-of-time exercise in the form of this Committee.