Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Pickles and Mary Macleod

Monday 17th January 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mary Macleod (Brentford and Isleworth) (Con)]

Given that three London councils are coming together to share some of their services, what advice would the Secretary of State give the London borough of Hounslow to stop it cutting front-line services?

[Mr Pickles]

It should seek to emulate those fine councils Hammersmith and Fulham, Westminster, and Kensington and Chelsea. It should join others in protecting the front line, and stop using the poor as a battering ram against the Government.