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Sustainable Communities Bill

I do not want there to be a lack of clarity on this issue. I hope that the Minister recognises that as far as we are concerned, the question of the report is very much unfinished business. The question whether the Secretary of State has to come to Parliament and list all the decisions on spending where he has said no is very material. It is material because doing so is what would embarrass a Secretary of State who had just given a blanket ““no”” to everything. Without that, there is no embarrassment factor and the force of new clause 6—or, as the Minister is now saying, new clause 1—would be diminished.