Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill

I thank the Minister for how he replied to the questions that I put. The famous case on this matter dates from 1976. It was the Secretary of State for Education and Science v Tameside Borough Council. It may be of interest to the Committee to know that Lord Denning gave a judgment, as did Lord Scarman and Lord Lane. On either side, there were advocates named—I cannot get them quite in alphabetical order—as Bingham, Brittan, Lloyd, Caldecott, who is not a Member of your Lordships’ House, and Woolf. It is an extremely distinguished case which turned on the question of the difference between being wrong and being unreasonable. Clause 25 agreed to. Clause 26 [Transfers on dissolution of English Nature and Countryside Agency]: