Clause 10
Housing and Regeneration Bill
11:30 am
Nick Raynsford (Greenwich and Woolwich, Labour)
I am very grateful to my hon. Friend, and I do not intend to push this much further. I appreciate his reassurance that there will be a general consent, and am pleased to hear that, because I myself had something to do with the general consent for local government that was issued in 2003. It is right there should be a parallel general consent for the HCA. It would help members of the Committee if, when we consider clause 50, we could have some indication of what the broad parameters of that general consent would be, how it will compare with the existing local authority consent and whether similar or different principles will apply.