Clause 11 - Supplementary
Planning and Compulsory Purchase (Re-committed) Bill
7:15 pm
Mr Keith Hill (Minister of State (Housing and Planning), Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Streatham, Labour)
I beg to move amendment No. 79, in
clause 11, page 6, line 33, at end insert—
'( ) The Secretary of State is the Secretary of State for the time being having general responsibility for policy in relation to the development and use of land.'.
Clause 1(2) requires the RSS to set out the Secretary of State's policies, however they are expressed, in relation to the development and use of land in the region. Amendment No. 79 prevents clause 1(2) from requiring policies prepared by any other Secretary of State to be included in the RSS if those policies relate to the development and use of land within the region. It has always been the intention that the RSS should set out the policies of the Secretary of State with general policy responsibility for planning, and not the policies of, for example, the Secretary of State for Health or the Secretary of State for Transport that relate to but are not primarily about land use or development. The amendment ensures that there is no confusion.
Amendment agreed to.
Question proposed, That the clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill.