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County Durham (Structural Change) Order 2008

I hope the noble Baroness, Lady Scott of Needham Market, will not mind if I pick up the point that she made about the decision of the implementation committee to call itself ““Durham County Council””. As an old county councillor, I am bound to say that that will lead to a great deal of confusion because it will not in fact be a county council; it will be a council for County Durham, which is quite properly made clear in the order. I am deliberately putting on the record that I think that it ought to be told quite clearly that this will lead to confusion because, although I entirely accept that there is only one council for County Durham, there are a lot of county councils. The noble Baroness is a serving member of one, I am an ex-member of another and other noble Lords here have a similar history. There is a clear distinction. It would be useful if that was explained in plain English to the implementation committee in County Durham.