Commons Bill [HL]

To avoid any further difficulties at this point, all I can say is that we shall have to read carefully the Hansard account of what the noble Lord has said. However, I should still like him to take away the whole question of the definition of ““significant”” because that really has not been answered fully. Is it a definition of the proportion? How does one judge that and who is to say what is ““significant””? Indeed, that observation could apply to one or two more of the answers that we have been given. I do not in any way belittle the Minister’s response; he has gone to a lot of trouble to provide us with answers to the questions that have been raised. However, it is clear that the questions have not gone away, though if the Minister wants to come back to me with a further explanation at our next sitting, that would be perfectly all right. I take the point on continuous use and how use may be interrupted by an event like an outbreak of foot and mouth disease or any other reason for a common to be closed for a temporary period. I have no difficulty with that. Rather than spend more time on it at this stage, I suspect that we have gone as far as we can for now. Indeed, when the Minister described blackberry picking as something that is not quite a qualifying activity, I thought that my noble friend Lord Caithness ought to be going about it in a slightly more energetic way; perhaps he would then qualify. At this point, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.