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Housing and Regeneration Bill

Perhaps the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, and the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, who will presumably respond on their amendments, will allow me to intervene. I listened carefully to what the Minister said about the really complicated amendments. This is in no way a disparagement of what the Minister said, but I am bound to say that my mind went back to those puzzles in one’s childhood where you were told that Mr Black, Mr White, Mr Brown and Mr Green lived in houses that were—not necessarily respectively—black, white, brown and green and you were then given further information and asked to discover in which colour house each of them lived. I am perfectly content, with a towel round my head, to reread what the Minister said to verify that it is now pellucid to the man on the Clapham omnibus. I hope that, if he is so minded, the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, will return to this on Report if he does not feel that the man on the Clapham omnibus will be able to follow it.