Planning Bill

My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. He clearly has a point as regards the parliamentary process. I should think very few pre-commencement statements have ever been through anything like that. On consultation of local interests and other stakeholders, the anxiety is that the Government may well say, ““There was a lot of consultation about the aviation White Paper; that will suffice””. That is the anxiety, even though it was done in an entirely different set of circumstances.