Tees Valley Combined Authority: Best Value Notice Debate
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Lord Watts
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Tees Valley Combined Authority: Best Value Notice
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Lord Watts (Lab)
My Lords, if I had acted in the same way when I was a local authority leader, I would have been surcharged. Is it not about time that the mayor had the same sort of qualification, that he has to deal with his public money in the same way as his own money, and he should have fiduciary duty like local authority leaders have?
Baroness Swinburne (Con)
There is a strengthened governance code for all the combined mayoral authorities and all these types of devolved government. I am sure that, as we progress with this, we will see those governance systems start to work more efficiently and effectively.