Communities and Local Government Committee - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]
The Balance of Power: Central and Local Government

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 12 May 2009.

Communities and Local Government Committee

Monday 8 December 2008

Members present

Dr Phyllis Starkey, in the Chair	Jim Dobbin
Sir Paul Beresford	Andrew George
Mr Clive Betts	Mr Bill Olner
John Cummings	Dr John Pugh

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CONTENTS

Witnesses: Professor George Jones OBE (Emeritus Professor of Government, London School of Economics) and Professor John Stewart (Emeritus Professor of Local Government and Administration, The Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham) gave evidence.

Question Numbers:

394-399

400-419

420-423

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Witnesses: Professor Vernon Bogdanor CBE, Professor of Government, Oxford University and Professor Tony Travers, Director of the Greater London Group, London School of Economics, gave evidence.

Question Numbers:

424-439

440-441

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Witness: Rt Hon Lord Heseltine, a Member of the House of Lords, gave evidence.

Question Numbers:

442-459

460-463

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Witnesses: Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP and Baroness Hamwee, a Member of the House of Lords, gave evidence.

Question Numbers:

464-479

480-481

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Prepared 20 May 2009