§ The Chairman of Committees (Lord Boston of Faversham)My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.
§ Moved, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider the relationship between central government and local authorities in Great Britain; and, in particular, to consider—
§ (1) the balance in that relationship between the powers exercised at central and local level;
§ (2) the effect of that relationship on local authorities' activities, particularly as regulator, service provider and community leader;
829§ (3) the need for regulation of local authorities as a means of ensuring appropriate standards of service and value for money, and the forms such regulation should take;
§ (4) the financial relationship between central government and local authorities including the extent to which financial independence for local authorities is desirable and practicable;
§ and that, as proposed by the Committee of Selection, the following Lords be named of the Committee—
- L. Beloff,
- L. Dubs,
- B. Hamwee,
- L. Hunt of Tanworth (Chairman),
- E. Kintore,
- B. Perry of Southwark,
- L. Plant of Highfield,
- B. Platt of Writtle,
- L. Stoddart of Swindon,
- L. Tope,
- L. Wade of Chorlton.
§ That the Committee have power to adjourn from place to place;
§ That the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee from time to time be printed and, if the Committee think fit, be delivered out;
§ That the Committee have power to appoint Specialist Advisers;
§ That the Committee do meet on Wednesday, 25th October at half-past ten o'clock.—(The Chairman of Committees.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.