Part of Growth and Infrastructure Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:15 am on 4 December 2012.
Nicholas Dakin
Opposition Whip (Commons)
10:15,
4 December 2012
My hon. Friend is spelling things out very clearly. Does she agree that some communities are fortunate to have greater human resource capacity as well as greater financial capacity to connect with local planning, whereas other communities are not that fortunate? There is a key issue about how we equalise the capacity across all communities, which I have not yet seen being addressed.
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