Clause 1 - Meaning of ``residential property'' and other expressions
Homes Bill
6:15 pm
Mr Nigel Waterson (Eastbourne, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman makes a telling point, which I cannot answer. Fortunately, I do not need to because I am not the Minister, whose response would be good to hear. It is one of the contradictions that could be created in English law if we go down this route. I can quite understand why the Minister has felt pushed inexorably towards excluding people. Exclusions will be one of the big problems in the Bill, whether of areas, bands of properties, types of transactions and so on. It is rather like the A and B list argument, which we will all learn to dread in due course. It is an almost totally circular argument. Whenever one excludes someone, by definition there is a problem about who is in and who is out.