Amendment summary
It was moved by the Lord Smith of Clifton, as an amendment to the motion that the draft Order laid before the House on 22nd March be approved, at end to insert “but this House regrets that the arrangements proposed for seven councils will not provide sufficient local identity, engagement, accountability for decisions or accessibility of the public to political representatives, as expressed by the majority of parties in Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Local Government Association”; which being objected to, the question was put thereupon, and