Rural Upper-tier Local Authorities Debate
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Rachel Gilmour
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Rural Upper-tier Local Authorities
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Caroline Voaden
I absolutely agree. It makes no sense to any of us in Devon. I have spent the entire summer listening to constituents who are deeply distressed about what has happened, which leaves them in a rump rural local authority with no option for economic growth or regeneration.
Rachel Gilmour (Tiverton and Minehead) (LD)
As a part-Devon Member of Parliament—the other part of my constituency is in Somerset—I entirely agree with what my hon. Friend is saying. The part of my constituency in Devon is 800 square miles and will form just part of an enormous rural authority. Does she agree that that authority does not have the fiscal power to sustain itself?