Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Bob Russell Excerpts
Wednesday 23rd March 2011

(13 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Bob Russell Portrait Bob Russell (Colchester) (LD)
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Let’s start with IPSA.

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton Portrait The Prime Minister
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I just heard a suggestion from my hon. Friend that the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority should be based in Croydon.

My hon. Friend the Member for Croydon Central (Gavin Barwell) makes a very good point. We have already saved £50 million by relocating Government property. The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, who sits in the Cabinet and does an excellent job, has saved £2.6 billion by combining quangos and public bodies, but I am sure there is more we can do, including, perhaps, in Croydon.