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Session 2006 - 07 Publications on the internet General Committee Debates Sustainable Communities |
Sustainable Communities Bill |
The Committee consisted of the following Members:Chris
Shaw, Committee
Clerk
attended the Committee
Public Bill CommitteeWednesday 16 May 2007[John Cummings in the Chair]Sustainable Communities BillClause 3representations
by principal councils in connection with the action
plan
Amendment
proposed [9 May]: No. 32, in clause 3, page 3, line 11, leave out
on a plan under section 2(3)(b) and insert
under section 2(5).[Mr.
Drew.]
10
am
Question
again proposed, That the amendment be
made.
The
Chairman:
I remind the Committee that with this we are
taking the following amendments: No. 33, in
clause 3, page 3, line 21, leave
out of residents under 25 years old. and
insert
through panels
set up in accordance with subsection (1A) of residents, employers and
employees in the councils area and in particular
of
(i) young people in the
area;
(ii) persons from ethnic
minorities;
(iii) tenants in
social housing;
(iv) persons
living on lower incomes;
(v)
persons with disabilities;
(vi)
persons living in deprived areas; and
(vii) persons over 60 years of
age.
An area is deprived for the purposes of
sub-paragraph (vii) if the official male adult unemployment rate
exceeds 10 per cent., or if more than 20 per cent. of households have
net incomes below £15,000 per
year.
(1A) For the purposes of
this Act, a principal council shall, so far as is practicable, arrange
for one or more panels to be established in its area representing
persons who live in its area or who work or employ workers in its area
and any such panel shall, so far as is practicable
include
(a)
representatives of the categories of persons specified in subsection
(1)(d)(i) to (viii), and
(b)
representatives of such persons or bodies as the council considers
appropriate being persons or bodies of any nature who exercise
functions or are engaged in activities in relation to the
sustainability of local communities in the councils area;
and
(c) an equal number of male
and female members.
For the
purposes of this subsection a member of a panel may represent
more than one of the categories specified in subsection
(1)(d)..
No.
34, in
clause 3, page 3, line 25, leave
out from council to end of line 42 and
insert
(3) A principal
council shall cooperate with any panel set up in its area under
subsection (1A) in making recommendations under section
2(5)..
Mr.
Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood) (Con): I am going to move
that the debate be adjourned. By way of explanation, I can say that we
are waiting for Government amendments, and the feeling of members of
the Committee was that it would be a more productive use of our time to
wait and discuss those specific amendments rather than have
conversations in the
abstract.
Debate
adjourned.[Mr.
Hurd.]
Adjourned
accordingly at one minute past Ten oclock till Wednesday 23 May
at Ten
oclock.
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