Examination of Witnesses (Questions 100
- 102)
WEDNESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2004
MR NICHOLAS
BOLES, MR
JOHN ADAMS,
MR DAN
CORRY, MR
WARREN HATTER
AND DR
PETER KENWAY
Q100 Mr Sanders: It is a good point
but I think beware of populations because your minimum population
might exclude Cornwall which probably has the strongest case of
any area in the country to be treated as a region in its own right.
Mr Bowles: I certainly agree with
you that you want those conditions to be minimal and non-existent
if possible.
Mr Sanders: Yet at the same time you
would not then want to attract people in another small area.
Q101 Chairman: I do not want to name
any particular place but is not the danger of that approach that
you end up with perhaps three relatively affluent areas wanting
to get together and to leave the poorer area which is within it
outside that sort of pattern?
Mr Bowles: That is a very, very
good point.
Q102 Chairman: And, lastly, what
is the justice? I have heard various people who were complaining
in Blackpool that the people in Wyre were going to have a vote
as to whether they wanted to become part of Blackpool whereas
the people in Blackpool were not going to have a vote as to whether
they wanted to take in the people in Wyre under the proposals
that were in place for the North West. I think that is replicated
in several other places.
Mr Bowles: I would have thought
that anybody who is going to be affected by an arrangement clearly
has to have a vote on that arrangement. It is just the logic of
democracy, is it not?
Chairman: On that note, can I thank you
all very much for your evidence.
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