Part of Sustainable Communities Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:00 am on 18 April 2007.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Bercow. I support the hon. Gentleman’s motion. I hope that the Minister, who is not here, will have heard that negotiations about the fate of the Bill are going on. One hopes that they will be decided positively in a week’s time. The issue of sustainable communities cannot be delayed for ever in arcane negotiations, which can be conducted only in an unsustainable manner. If sustainability is the order of the day, let us sustain ourselves to resolve the issue in a week’s time.