HC Deb 22 October 1973 vol 861 cc887-8

Lords Amendment: No. 16, in page 52, line 5, after "Commission" insert: with such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned and with such other organisations or persons as he may think appropriate".

Mr. Younger

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

It will be convenient to take at the same time Lords Amendment No. 17, in page 52, line 5, leave out "them" and insert "the Commission".

Mr. Younger

These amendments require the Secretary of State, before giving general directions to the Commission for Local Authority Accounts as to the discharge of its functions, to consult—as well as the Commission—such local authority associations as appear to him to be concerned and such other organisations or persons as he may think appropriate.

Amendments requiring consultations with the local authorities rather than, as is usual, their associations were tabled both in Committee and on Report in the Commons, and I agreed then that a suitably worded amendment would be brought forward in the Lords. This is it, and I ask the House to agree to it.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords amendments agreed to.

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