Commons Bill [HL]

My Lords, we see this as keeping a commons association on hold for 12 months. It is undoubtedly desirable that if at all possible the commons association can be revived. It seems to us that one of the few ways of doing so is to put it into the—shall we say?—““co-operative custody”” of an adjacent commons association for a period of 12 months. The amendment seems to us to be very reasonable. In the circumstances which we and the noble Duke have described, it is probably a constructive way to go about such a problem.