Local Government Finance Debate

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Local Government Finance

Peter Bone Excerpts
Wednesday 19th December 2012

(12 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Pickles Portrait Mr Pickles
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I am grateful, because a scribbled note has arrived from the Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, my right hon. Friend the Member for Bath (Mr Foster), and the figure is not £150 million but £180 million. Those announcements will be made by the Secretary of State for Education.

Peter Bone Portrait Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con)
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East Northamptonshire district council and Wellingborough council have embraced the Secretary of State’s reforms. They have a wonderful new leisure park, a retail park plan, 2,000 new jobs and the project is ready to go. The only thing stopping the project is the Secretary of State’s Department. Will he speed up the process and approve it?