I know from my own experience of a case where the council said that the police had raised objections, for a whole host of reasons. People often then say, ““Well, okay, the police have a problem, so we won't do it.”” When one follows it through and contacts the police to find out what is going on, they say they do not know anything about it. That goes back to the fundamental point that the council will try to price it out of existence or say that it is somebody else's fault, whereas the bottom line is that they simply do not want it to happen.
Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Mark Tami
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 18 March 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill.
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