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Local Government and Planning (Parkland and Windfall Development) Bill

I think we can all sign up to that. [Hon. Members: ““Can we quote you?””] Hon. Members can more than quote me, as I have said it before. The hon. Gentleman said that these matters should be left to the local authority. That, of course, is precisely the point made by the hon. Member for Solihull. She does not want to leave the sale of parkland in her borough to the local authority; as she explained so eloquently in her speech, she wants to do the opposite, and take power away from the authority. The hon. Member for Shipley says that he wants to devolve power to local authorities. The message seems to be, ““We’ll devolve power as long as we agree with the decisions that are then taken.”” I therefore take it that if Bradford metropolitan borough—for that fine city covers his constituency—decided that it was happy for every garden in the borough of Bradford to have a house built in the back yard, and perhaps some flats as well, he would not oppose that because he would see it is as being a sensible decision by a Conservative-led council.