Paul Goodman (Shadow Minister, Communities and Local Government; Wycombe, Conservative)

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr. Amess. The only person who spotted the printing error was the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne, who did not think it was a printing error and came in at 9 o’clock in any event, so there we are.

I also welcome the Minister, who will be hoping that the passage of this Bill through Committee is easier than that of the last Bill with which she was engaged. I say to my right hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon that the Minister would be unwise to move her place, because apparently, Ministers are sometimes reliant on sources of inspiration. I am never going to be a Minister, sadly, so I do not know, but it is unwise for a Minister to separate herself too far from those sources.

This clause, which seeks to give guidance, would ordinarily be inoffensive, but as it contains the words to which clause 23 applies, for which we did not care, we do not care for this clause, either.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government; Portsmouth North, Labour)

The arguments that were made in relation to clause 23 apply to this one, if that is the reason why the Opposition are opposing it.