Greater London Authority Bill

I hope that the noble Baroness will forgive me. She referred to the rules. I think that the rules she was referring are the existing arrangements for the public to access what the Mayor is consulting on in London. As I said, I am a council tax payer and I have little knowledge about local government in London—apart from housing, to which I shall come later as the Bill progresses. I was involved in a discussion with a residents' association in Westminster for three months. I did much of the work on the half of the residents' association and I found the process of consultation with the GLA extremely difficult to understand. There was no master document. My son and I spent hours trawling the internet to find out how to make representations on particular issues. The information was not there unless you dug deep into the detail and looked at individual documents produced by the GLA on planning policy. Although the amendment may seem redundant to some of my noble friends, if it would provide for a single document that would set out clearly and simply for the public what are the powers of the Mayor in consulting about the issues set out in paragraphs (e) to (g), I am very much in favour of it. As someone who tried to use the system and work out what were the rights for a council tax payer in London to make representations and be consulted, if they are as difficult as I suggest, something should be done.