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Sooner or later, councils—regardless of their political complexion after May—will have to attach greater priority to that responsibility, if the situation is not to deteriorate further.I am afraid that we are talking about a situation in which it is easy for councils, because of competing demands and pressures on their budgets, to postpone the repair of a r...
I know that, whenever they start to do that, there is a great emotional pull attached to selling the family silver. There may be some good examples, but, in general, local authorities do not have a good record of managing their asset base.
Although sections 1 to 5 and the other sections that it is proposed to deal with earlier may not be contentious or complicated, they still deserve adequate consideration and scrutiny.
The community justice authorities are not being consulted formally. The committee may wish to confirm that this Opposition member's statement is correct in every detail and take its own view, but that is my understanding of the situation.
There is a separate provision on agreement in new section 192(9), under which a notice may be published on a website when the authority notifies the person of the means of accessing the information"in a manner agreed between them".The provision will enable local authorities and businesses to agree on an approach that might be different from notification.
It ought to be incumbent on authorities not just to tell people that they may not do certain things but to offer some sort of solution, explaining, "You can't do it that way any more, but we suggest you do it a different way in future."
I am sure that the Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning will be happy to do that, and he may already have made that offer. What is more important than simply having meetings is that we act as quickly as possible.