Schedule 1 - Local development orders: procedure
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
4:15 pm
Mr Tony McNulty (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Harrow East, Labour)
I concede the logic of that point. I should be delighted if the hon. Gentleman could have a word with the usual channels on our side and we could be given the scope to introduce an omnibus consolidation town and country planning Bill, containing all the measures that we want to introduce on compulsory purchase as well. I can see the legislative logic of that—although I should add when I say that I am wearing my non-ministerial, humble MP's hat.
My perennial response to the hon. Member for Cotswold is that I will endeavour to do my best. I take his point. Finally, I cannot believe that amendment No. 358, moved by the hon. Member for Spelthorne, is really meant to say:
''or the previous decision of it''.
I should be grateful if, after the sitting, he can tell me whether he meant it to say ''revision'' rather than ''decision''. That was part of the reason for my confusion about the amendment.
Question put and agreed to.
Schedule 1 agreed to.