Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2008

My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister. I have only one question on the order and one closely related to it, which is certainly related to what both noble Lords have said. With regard to taxation matters, I think the words that were used were, ““the position is substantially unaltered””. I am sorry; it has only just occurred to me to probe that. I do not know whether that means ““unaltered save for title””, or whether there is anything more. I think the phrase, ““leaving everyone as far as possible in a tax-neutral position”” was also used, which raises the question of what is not possible. Is that disadvantageous? I should perhaps be looking in a different direction for this question. The Minister talked about the context of the order and referred to the rather different situation in which we now find ourselves, even though it seems only five minutes ago that we finished the Housing and Regeneration Bill. Local authorities up and down the country are working on local economic recovery plans, and I wonder whether the Minister has anything more that she can add about ways in which the HCA is working and intends to work with local authorities, because not every one will be the same. Are the Government satisfied that the model that we created in a spirit of co-operation is actually the right one?