Capital Projects: Spending Decisions

Andrew Gwynne Excerpts
Thursday 9th February 2023

(1 year, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lee Rowley Portrait Lee Rowley
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I refer the hon. Lady to my answers at the outset, which explained very clearly the changes and how there is no ultimate change to what is being spent in communities up and down the land to transform areas that have been left behind for a long time.

Andrew Gwynne Portrait Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish) (Lab)
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Let me put it in local government terms for the Minister. When a council is told that it cannot spend any more money without specific approval, it is called a section 114 notice. What is it like for his Department to get the equivalent of a section 114 notice?

Lee Rowley Portrait Lee Rowley
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Let me put it in terms of reality. This Government’s budgets are not changing, this Department’s objectives are not changing, and this Government’s ambition is not changing on levelling up.