Part of Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:30 pm on 4 June 2019.
Kevin Foster
Assistant Whip, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales, The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office
4:30,
4 June 2019
Certainly our intention would be for the Sponsor Body to take responsibility for the full process of the works on the estate, and, again, the way that Clause 1 is drafted allows that to be extended if necessary.
The overall push of the Bill is to create the legal mechanism for delivery of the project, and I will be clear that the alternative to not having clause 1 stand part of the Bill, and indeed to not having this Bill, would be that the House Commissions would try to deal with things separately, in a way that would neither deliver value for money nor provide clear accountability.
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