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ARTICLE · 15 JULY 2011

Public Bodies Bill Gets Its Second Reading In The Commons

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It has taken a while but, hot on the heels of the Open Public Services White Paper published on Monday, the Second Reading debate on the Public Bodies Bill eventually took place last night in the Commons and the Bill has been duly committed to a Public Bill Committee which must complete its deliberations by 13 October.

United KingdomGovernment, Public Sector
Paul Thompson
Paul Thompson

This is entry No. 41, first published on 13 July 2011, of a blog on Public Bodies Reform. Click here to view the whole blog. If you would like to be notified when the blog is updated, with links sent by email, click here.

It has taken a while but, hot on the heels of the Open Public Services White Paper published on Monday, the Second Reading debate on the Public Bodies Bill eventually took place last night in the Commons and the Bill has been duly committed to a Public Bill Committee which must complete its deliberations by 13 October.

The debate (which did not see the Open Public Services White Paper discussed) was dominated by discussions on how to bring forward the prospective office of Chief Coroner (provided for by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009but not yet established), reduction in funding for S4C and the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Boards (which Andrew George, who leads for the Lib Dems on Defra matters, indicates he opposes).

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