Clause 13
Housing and Regeneration Bill
12:30 pm
Lembit Öpik (Shadow Minister (Housing), Department for Communities and Local Government; Montgomeryshire, Liberal Democrat)
None of the assurances that the Minister has given is anything more than reassuring words. There is nothing specific in what he has said to provide an insurance policy against the persistent use, on a case-by-case basis, of this greater power. Is there anything specific in the legislation, or is he planning anything on Report, that would provide a double lock—a security that is more than simply a hope that Secretaries of State continue to be benign?