Clause 3
Local Democracy, Economic Developmentand Construction Bill [Lords]
4:30 pm
Stewart Jackson (Shadow Minister, Communities and Local Government; Peterborough, Conservative)
The hon. Lady is making a very strong case. What would she say to my constituents, and perhaps hers as well, who look at clause 3 and may accept the premise on which it is based but at the same time are told that, for instance, they are not permitted to know the location of bail hostels? That, again, is the interface of locality with the criminal justice system. It has been outsourced to ClearSprings, for instance, and Ministers are not permitted to divulge, or choose not to, their location or set up structures where proper consultation can take place in residential areas when such hostels are proposed.