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Planning-gain Supplement (Preparations) Bill

I beg your pardon, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was led astray by the Financial Secretary, who seemed not to understand what was the fault of the Bill, which is not that it is a paving Bill, but that it is paving Bill that does not even have the substance of a paving Bill. The new clause would mean that the Bill would have no effect at all until we knew enough about it to make an informed decision—even about paving. Even those of us who are asked to be paviours deserve to know how much, how long, with whom and on what basis. That is all we ask and it would be reasonable for the Government to tell us.