Local Government Bill [H.L.]

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 5:45 pm on 25 January 2000.

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Photo of Baroness Hamwee Baroness Hamwee Liberal Democrat 5:45, 25 January 2000

I am sure the Minister will understand that one has to find a device to ask the question, even if one does not have particular faith in one's own drafting. It is not an amendment that I would wish seriously to see incorporated in the final form of the Bill. However, it has enabled me to make the point that this might be an occasion for guidance. No doubt there will be occasions when local authorities will be unclear as to whether or not they are already prohibited by existing legislation from pursuing the power which they were so happy to have received a few lines earlier in the Bill. I am not sure whether I have taken the argument further, but I have only taken four minutes over it. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.