"River Tramp" wrote in message
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Can you explain why you think the cost of the electrical inspection
shouldn't be passed onto the client? Would you do work which cost you
money?

IanC

Clearly if the work has to be done, it has to be paid for, and if it costs
the council X to do it, they can charge the client X, get X from Gordon
Brown or put up the rates by the amount required to recoup X.

In this case I think many people's complaint is that ODPM suggested that the
council wouldn't charge the client directly, presumably assuming that
council's would absorb the cost and no one would notice (although presumably
govt will be soon making huge savings by shutting down the fire stations and
hospitals that used to be used for the victims of all those pre part P DIY
electrical disasters, so it should work out OK in the end) .

Andy