HC Deb 16 February 1994 vol 237 cc812-3W
29. Mrs. Lait

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps he has taken to encourage councils to extend compulsory competitive tendering to as wide a range of services as possible.

Mr. Baldry

We have already announced a detailed programme for extension of CCT to local authorities' professional and corporate services, to housing management, and to three further blue-collar services. I would encourage authorities to open up their services to competition wherever possible, and I am gratified to see that an increasing number of authorities are voluntarily subjecting a wide range of services to competitive tendering, ahead of the statutory timetable.

32. Mr. Trend

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement about his plans for the application of compulsory competitive tendering to housing management.

Sir George Young

I refer my hon. Friend to the answers I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Southport (Mr. Banks) on 26 November 1993 at column264; to my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) on 15 December 1993 at column 733; and to my hon. Friend the Member for Havant (Mr. Willets) on 21 January 1994 at columns 872–73.

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