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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

My Lords, I have Amendments Nos. 25, 26 and 27 in this group. I pause hopefully, but no one is leaping to intervene. Clause 11 provides for LBRO to publish, "““a list specifying matters to which a local authority should give priority when allocating resources to its relevant functions””." My concern is that LBRO’s powers should not extend to allocating to the regulatory functions from the whole of a local authority’s budget. Rather, they should be limited to the priorities within what a local authority itself allocates to the functions. I hope that the Government can reassure me that that is what is intended. If the Government take the view that LBRO should have the greater power of saying to a local authority, ““Thou shalt devote X million out of your Y hundreds of millions to the relevant functions””, that is too much power on the part of LBRO. I therefore hope that the Government can assure me that this is intended to be a more limited intervention.