Written evidence to be reported to the House

Part of Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:30 pm on 30 January 2007.

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Gordon Keymer: I do not know whether hon. Members are aware, but in the whole of Europe we have the lowest number of councillors per 100,000 people. They will be amazed to know that the second worst country is Denmark, which has twice as many as we have per 100,000 people. A Danish councillor said sadly that his Government were following the example of the UK Government and reducing the number of councillors. It is my view that we need more councillors, not fewer, and that important point relates particularly to the unitary proposals.