Before the noble Baroness answers my noble friend, perhaps I may add to his question—it is the same point but viewed from a slightly different angle. If it turns out that the scheme is not working, on the face of it that would require the Government to bring in primary legislation to change the duty. What the amendment offers is a way of dealing with matters, if required, by secondary legislation, where that difficulty is much less—in fact, we complain about it being less much of the time. In this case, it would surely be a better way of dealing of it than imposing a duty to come back with primary legislation if the scheme proved not to be working properly.
Housing and Planning Bill
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Lord Beecham
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in the House of Lords on Monday, 14 March 2016.
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and
Debate on bills on Housing and Planning Bill.
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