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As amended in the Standing Committee, further considered.

No doubt the hon. Gentleman thinks that he is being very clever and helping the process, but he has not been here long enough to know that it does not quite work that way. Thanks to the excellent selection and grouping of amendments, my little amendment is the lead amendment in this group, so I get to speak first. If the hon. Gentleman would contain himself, we might just find that the Bill will make a little more progress than he may have anticipated, but being patronising and impertinent will not help his cause. My amendment would remove clause 17 in its entirety, because it is wrong to direct the no doubt laudable aims of the Bill at the level of parish councils, which have much more relevant things to do with their very limited resources. We need to hear a lot more from the Minister about what his amendments mean and, in particular, why he wants to remove the reassuring element in subsection (3). I look forward to that.