Local Government Committee, 03 Dec 2002

Meeting date: Tuesday, December 3, 2002

Official Report 283KB pdf

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Interests

Before we begin again, I welcome Dr Richard Simpson, who is joining the Local Government Committee. I am sure that you will find it very interesting, Richard, but I am afraid that I have to ask you whether you have any interests that you need to declare.

I have no interests additional to those that I have already declared in the register of members' interests.

Thank you.

As we are in a particularly warm room this afternoon, people may take their jackets off if they feel they have to, but I would not go much further than that—at the moment, anyway. Please feel free to do that. I think that, by the time that we get to the end of the meeting, though, there might be more than jackets off.