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London Waste and Recycling Board Order 2008

We on these Benches welcome this order. As the Minister said, my noble friend Lady Hamwee very much welcomes it. She has asked me to remind the Committee that the board should be, in her words, ““tough and ambitious””, and I am sure that will be the case. I may have failed to hear the Minister mention the relevant figure as regards the Government’s financial backing for the board and I should be grateful if he would repeat it. Under Article 4(7)(c) of the order, the mayor’s representative may be removed if the mayor believes that he has, "““become unable, unfit or unsuitable to carry out that person’s duties””." Does that mean that the mayor can more or less get rid of that person as he or she sees fit, or would these criteria be applied much more tightly? In what circumstances would that sub-paragraph be used? What criteria will the Government use to judge the success of the board? What do they expect it to achieve in the next couple of years?