I am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Minister for clarifying those points. We all accept the need to upgrade the electricity transmission network, and those Members who have not yet seen what the new electricity pylons look like are welcome to come down to the south-west and see for themselves. I find them incredibly visibly intrusive up close, although not un-aesthetically pleasing in themselves; how much one objects to them really depends on how close one is to them.

The point is that those pylons will be rolled out across the country. One of the roles we have in Parliament is not just to deal with issues when they reach crisis level, but to anticipate them. It is therefore important to bring in this legislation before the matter becomes an issue for most Members of Parliament, even if they do not yet understand the scale of the problem they are likely to face. It is a bizarre aspect of democratic politics that MPs get much more credit for solving a problem than for preventing one, but we try to live with that.

As all of us on the Committee agree, and as we agreed on Second Reading, that it is essential that Parliament rebalances the David and Goliath struggles that individuals face against large utilities, corporations and conglomerates in favour of the smaller party. It is quite unacceptable that the only means of achieving compensation or justice in a dispute with a very large company is if one is rich enough to go to court. That is where the importance of the Bill lies: it is about empowerment, and one of the most important roles of Parliament is empowering our constituents against those who would seek to bully them because of their advantage of size or money. To go back to my very first point, we get occasions when there are those who say, “Don’t bother going to your Member of Parliament, because they can’t do anything about it.” The wonderful thing about democracy is that we can, and today we will.