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Proceedings of the Committee Stage of the Local Government Finance Bill. Consists of a complete set of the 18 sitting of the Committee between 19 November 1991 and 5 December 1991. Also includes the first two sittings of Standing Committee D of the Local Government Bill, 28-30 January 1992.

Scope and Contents Material relating to Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT), the requirement for public sector organisations to allow private sector firms to bid for the delivery of services such as catering, cleaning and security. Includes draft document 'Abolishing Compulsory Competitive Tendering' setting out Labour's commitment to abolish CCT if they won the 1992 General Election; Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) briefing notes and reports on CCT; Labour party publication 'The Future of Local...

Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to the 1992 General Election on 9 April 1992, which the Labour Party was expected to win. Includes a set of identical letters sent by Blunkett to the chairs of local authority associations (such as AMA and ALA) concerning how the associations might act as intermediaries between the Department of the Environment and individual local authorities assuming a Labour win, March 1992; correspondence with Professor John Stewart, from the Institute of Local Government,...