Part of Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:15 am on 21 June 2005.
James Paice
Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
11:15,
21 June 2005
I am grateful to the Minister. We shall come back to the issue of reasonableness in a later Amendment, but we shall have to beg to differ on the point.
I want to extract from the Government a little more of their thinking. I am concerned that they do not want to put any constraints on either body, particularly the Commission for Rural Communities. Given that their purposes are quite limited, I cannot see why they should need the power to buy property other than for administration purposes. However, it is not a big issue, and I do not want to force it at this stage. In light of the Minister’s comments, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
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