First Special Report
On 23 July 2009 the Committee published its Ninth
Report of 2008-09, Market Failure?: Can the traditional market
survive? (HC 308-I). The Government published its Response
on 12 October (Cm 7721). We wrote to the Department noting that
it had addressed only 14 of our 32 conclusions and recommendations
in the Response, and asking two questions about some of the material
published in the Response. We received a reply from the Minister
for Local Government on 28 January indicating that the Local Government
Association (LGA) was considering a response to the remainder
of our conclusions and recommendations on behalf of local authorities.
We received a letter from the LGA on 17 February. We received
a further reply from the Minister on 16 March responding to our
questions and updating us on related matters. We publish here
the letter from the LGA and the letter of 16 March from the Minister.
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