Clause 38 - Sustainable development
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
2:30 pm
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne, Conservative)
I am sorry that I was not present at the beginning of the debate, Mr. Pike, but the Minister's comments have given me an opportunity
to raise a point that I did not and could not raise this morning. Your co-Chairman said that there would not be a clause stand part debate, so I will go back a step and remind you, and the Committee, that I said that there needed to be some discussion about what the Government had in mind.
The Minister said that my hon. Friend the Member for Cotswold was being a bit ungracious—I cannot remember the exact word that he used—in not acknowledging the fact that he had received some documents from the Minister. At the time I believed that that was case for all of us, and I said that I did not want to be ungracious. After this morning's sitting I went to the message board and found the document that is in my hand, which is relevant to what the Minister said—the document to which the Minister referred this morning. I am sure that he will tell me that it was over on the Table this morning, but when I sat down in my place this morning I had no reason to know that it might be there. The document could not have been made available earlier because it is dated 21 January. It is helpful—I read it during lunchtime.