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Greater London Authority Bill

moved, as an amendment to Amendment No. 56, Amendment No. 56A: 56A: After Clause 36, line 31, leave out ““accordance”” and insert ““general conformity”” The noble Baroness said: My Lords, I thank the Minister very much for that reply and for taking up the point that I made in Grand Committee that the meeting to try to bring about this development fund did not take place. Clearly what has happened in the interim has been very satisfactory, and has brought a resolution to an outstanding problem. It is not unusual for the Minister to step in in this way, but I thank him anyway, because things were becoming ridiculous and the steadying hand that was needed to get this implemented was not being applied. We are very happy to accept the government amendment, as it is the right way in which to get an overview of London waste management. It is a good result. It also gives a statutory body the power to deal with the funding which the Minister has said will be available. It is churlish to want tweaks at this stage, so I will say only that Amendment No. 56A seeks to leaveout the word ““accordance”” in proposed newSection 356A(5) of the GLA Act 1999 and insert ““general conformity””, although I cannot say that I feel very strongly about that at the moment. On Amendment No. 57A, which also amends Amendment No. 56, I think that the Minister resolved the problem to which it relates, but I simply want to be clear that, if the Mayor is not going to chair this body, someone else from the development body will and that the Mayor, and perhaps the leader of the London Councils, will decide together who will chair it. If the Minister responds in the affirmative, I will call this a clear win. I thank him again; I simply want those two points to be considered. I beg to move.