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As amended in the Standing Committee, further considered.

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that intervention. I will indeed refer to his amendment, but I thought it would be helpful to try to progress logically and start by debating the lead amendment, which would leave out clause 9 altogether. One way of summing up clause 9 would be to say that under its provisions the Secretary of State is expressly prohibited from listening to anyone or modifying the outcome of his review in any way. That is rather reminiscent of the Labour slogan articulated by the late Lord Shawcross after old Labour got into office after the war—““We are the masters now.”” The Secretary of State is the master and it is not going to be possible for anybody to intervene in any process to say, ““Hold on a minute—are you sure this is actually the right thing to do in terms of the environment?””