Clause 13
Housing and Regeneration Bill
12:15 pm
Lembit Öpik (Shadow Minister (Housing), Department for Communities and Local Government; Montgomeryshire, Liberal Democrat)
The Minister says that he is perhaps being unduly harsh on me, He only serves to make things more difficult for himself after the next general election when, as I sit in his place, I shall remember his intransigence. But I hope that I shall not pay him in like kind; I shall listen to the merits of his arguments and then reject his amendments all the same, as he is doing with me.
I can see that the Minister is terrified of lists, but there is an irony in that, as has been made clear, because the Government themselves have included lists in this very Bill. So that is nothing more than a moot point in his objection to what I am suggesting. Nevertheless, the Minister gave some reassurance that these things will have to be taken into account, although in a different way. In order not to prolong the debate, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.