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As amended in the Standing Committee, further considered.

Indeed. We know of many occasions on which so-called consultation has been carried out in such a peremptory way, or so late on, that it has had little or no impact. When I was drafting the amendment, I had in mind whether the consultation process was of any value at all. I am giving the Minister the benefit of the doubt in this case, because it may well give some added value to the legislative process and to the Bill. I mentioned the Campaign to Protect Rural England because many of the mechanisms, techniques and installations that we are discussing could have an enormous effect on our more beautiful rural areas. They will have different effects in urban areas, of course—that is a different consideration—but I thought that it was worth mentioning the rural environment. The benefit of this part of our deliberations is that we have highlighted the difficulties that could arise if we fail to get absolutely right the balance between the desire of the promoter of the Bill, the Government and my Front-Bench colleagues to introduce microgeneration much more widely and the negative effect that it could have. I think that we have made some progress. We have teased out the issue and got it on the record and into the public domain. Ever with a mind to the legislative process in another place, I hope that we have given Members there something to think about as well. I hope that the Minister will give us a definitive response as to how he sees the review developing and how he envisages the emergence of the constraints on such installations that we might expect. We can then go back to our constituents and say that we have obtained from him as much reassurance as is reasonable.