HC Deb 19 June 1973 vol 858 c465

8.0 p.m.

Mr. Younger

I beg to move Amendment No. 90, in page 49, line 36, leave out from 'below' to end of line 38 and insert:

  1. '(a) all sums received by or on behalf of the authority shall be paid into that fund;
  2. (b) all fees, commissions, discounts allowed on payment of accounts and expenses payable to or recovered by any officer of a local authority in respect of any business relating to the authority whether by reason of his office or otherwise shall be accounted for and paid into that fund; and all sums payable by the authority shall be paid out of that fund'.

Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. E. L. Mallalieu)

With this amendment we are to take Government Amendment No. 328, in Schedule 27.

Mr. Younger

We discussed this amendment in Committee, and I undertook to ascertain the views of the local authority associations about this matter, following a request from the hon. Member for Greenock (Dr. Dickson Mabon). I have established that a working group of local authority and departmental officials, as long ago as 1971, recommended that fee funds should be abolished. This was agreed at a meeting of local authority associations in October 1971. It was an oversight which was not covered by this amendment and which was not provided in the Bill when it was introduced. It has not produced an adverse reaction, or any other reaction from the local authorities.

Amendment agreed to.

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