I thank the noble Baroness for her response, which I am not sure entirely clarifies the situation. What she seems to be saying is that the Bill introduces a new scheme whose outcome is so uncertain that we need an extra provision for it to be changed if it goes wrong. That is in light of what my noble friend has just said, which is that the four actual examples that exist at the moment have all performed below average. So, in that sense, her caution about having such a power is perhaps quite sound, but does that not rather indicate that the model itself should not go ahead in this form until the Government are satisfied that it will achieve the objectives of improved performance, or at least not deteriorating performance, before she proceeds?
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Stunell
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 15 March 2023.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill.
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