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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 18: 18: Clause 5, page 3, line 29, at beginning insert ““economically, efficiently and”” The noble Baroness said: This is a short amendment. Clause 5 provides that the LBRO must, among other matters, ensure that local authorities, "““exercise their relevant functions effectively””." ““Effectively”” is a well known term in the local government world, but it almost invariably goes along with ““economically and efficiently””. I believe that has been the case for more than 20 years. I wondered why only one of those three words was included, or why the other two were omitted. Is effectiveness to be given greater importance in this area than economy and efficiency? Since a local authority must have regard to all three of those criteria or characteristics, it is not desirable for legislation to omit some of those terms. I beg to move.