Greater London Authority Bill

moved Amendment No. 6: 6: Clause 35, page 38, line 23, after ““Authority”” insert ““which shall transfer the sum to the authority which would be the local planning authority in the absence of a direction by the Mayor under section 2A”” The noble Baroness said: My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment No. 7, which is grouped with Amendment No. 6 . These amendments deal with aspects of the proposed new planning regime. When we debated the same amendments at the previous stage, the Minister said that she would write to me. I understand from the conversation of the past 10 minutes or so that it is either the fault of my filing—it cannot be the dog because I do not have one—the postal situation or whatever method of communication was used. I am not aware of having received a letter. In any event, particularly with regard to the amendment on how commuted payments—on the last occasion Hansard recorded that phrase as ““commuter payments””—are to be dealt with when the application involves more than one borough, my concern is to understand what happens to sums paid by way of commuted payments by the applicant. Do they go to the Mayor? Are they divided between the relevant boroughs? For example, in the case of affordable housing, is there a mechanism that would allow the Mayor to use money paid by a developer in respect of a development in one borough which does not have the requisite proportion of affordable housing to build housing in another part of London? I apologise to the House for bringing these amendments back, but having the explanation on the record will be helpful. I beg to move.