---

Commons Bill [HL]

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing this batch of amendments. Taking them in reverse order, we had a long debate about ““rural inhabitants””, which was the crux of the matter at that stage. I am happy to accept the wording before us today, which will include urban inhabitants locally as much as rural inhabitants. I am grateful for that. In another place, my honourable friend Jim Paice raised the issue covered in Amendment No. 10, and the wording we have before us should cover his concerns. It would have been a shame not to have clarified how far a development must have gone to be established as a development. I am grateful to the Minister for his explanation of these amendments and we are happy to support them.