Planning Bill
1:00 pm
John Healey (Minister of State (Local Government), Department for Communities and Local Government; Wentworth, Labour)
I welcome you back to the Chair, Mr. Illsley. I will indeed report back to the Committee or the House on the progress of discussions and proposals for scrutiny arrangements for the important provisions on national policy statements in the Bill. I recognise the importance of the parliamentary scrutiny and how strongly that is felt by members of the Committee and will reflect on all the points that have been raised in what has been an extended and useful debate, including those that were put so clearly and strongly by my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe.