Clause 46
Planning Bill
1:30 pm
John Healey (Minister of State (Local Government), Department for Communities and Local Government; Wentworth, Labour)
Perhaps it will help to put the hon. Gentleman’s concerns in perspective if I explain to the Committee the type of information that will be obtained. The only type of information that may be obtained using that power is a person’s name and address. In those circumstances, I think that the hon. Gentleman accepts that the costs of compliance are likely to be negligible. It would not be reasonable for the commission to authorise the serving of a notice in circumstances where the applicant could readily obtain the information by other means, such as a Land Registry search. In those circumstances, it would not be reasonable to get them to do so, so I am not sure whether the amendment, which I suspect is a probing amendment, serves a particularly useful purpose.