Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning,
Local Government and the Regions - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 12 July 2004.

Oral evidence

Taken before the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister:

Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee

on Tuesday 27 April 2004

Members present:

Andrew Bennett, in the Chair

Sir Paul Beresford	Chris Mole
Mr Clive Betts	Mr Bill O'Brien
Mr Graham Brady	Christine Russell
Mr David Clelland	Mr Adrian Sanders
Mr John Cummings

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CONTENTS

Witnesses: Mr Peter Kenway, Director, and Mr Guy Palmer, Director, New Policy Institute; Mr Nicholas Boles, Director, Policy Exchange; and Mr Dan Corry, Director, New Local Government Network, examined.

Question Numbers

1-19

20-39

40-42

Witnesses: Professor Glen Bramley, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, and Professor Tony Travers, London School of Economics, examined.

Question Numbers

43-59

60-77

Witnesses: Mr Ray Shostak, Public Services Directorate, and Mr Andrew Lewis, Head of Tax Policy Team, HM Treasury; and Ms Lindsay Bell, Director of Local Government Finance, Mr Andrew Allberry, Head of Taxation, Valuation and General Policy Division, Local Government Finance Directorate, and Mr Robert Davies, Head of Modernisation and Grant Distribution Division, Local Government Finance Directorate, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, examined.

Question Numbers

78-79

80-99

100-119

120-139

140-159

160-180

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Prepared 27 July 2004