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Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [HL]

I apologise that I was not here at the beginning; I hope that the noble Baroness will accept an intervention from me. A lot of local authorities have the grant floor in relation to the revenue support grant. When money is put in for new legislation or improvements, we do not get it; we get only a certain amount of grant, and that is it. Although the noble Lord, Lord Smith, said that this will not cost anything, it will cost something, and something will have to go because of it. Therefore, whatever the noble Baroness says about extra money going in, authorities like mine get none of it. I hope that the Government will remember that when new legislation, however small, is loaded on to us, because we have to fund it from what we have, and that is it.