Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [HL]

Does the Minister honestly think that if an item about youth facilities goes on the agenda as a petition and the council is taking it seriously it would not refer it to the next meeting for a report on the situation, to get exactly the information that the Minister is talking about? That is how councils work. It may be that if that information is available it will be presented to the meeting—if there is a decent chairman who says that it should—at the same time as the petition. They are the committees that make the decisions, and they are not included in this at all.