HC Deb 24 February 1993 vol 219 cc627-8W
19. Mr. Butler

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress has been made in putting out local services to compulsory competitive tendering.

Mr. Robin Squire

A wide range of local authority services are subject to CCT, including highway and building construction and maintenance, refuse collection, street sweeping, grounds maintenance, and catering. Last November my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the extension of CCT to a further range of local authority professional and corporate services.

22. Mr. Waterson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the development of compulsory competitive tendering on housing management.

29. Sir Paul Beresford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the development of compulsory competitive tendering on housing management.

Sir George Young

The Housing and Urban Development Bill contains provisions which pave the way for the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering to local authority housing management. It is anticipated that regulations governing the detailed operation and implementation of local authority housing management CCT will be introduced later this year.

Mr. Barry Field

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will take steps to ensure that all local authorities apply compulsory competitive tendering with equal rigour; and which county councils are in the bottom quartile of performance in this area.

Mr. Robin Squire

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Vale of Glamorgan (Mr. Sweeney) earlier today.