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Housing and Regeneration Bill

I am grateful for the Minister’s comments. She tells us that the provisions here are modelled on previous Acts, the TCPA 1990 and the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993. She may not be able to tell us now, but how many times have those provisions been used during the past 18 or 15 years? I do not know whether anybody knows that but it is an important question. We have been told by the noble Baroness, Lady Ford, that the only thing that she can remember in that regard is a giraffe with anthrax. I do not think that that applies to burial grounds, in this sense. It would be interesting to know the answer. It is easy to churn over existing legislation that was made for a previous era and previous circumstances, under a very different planning regime, and to re-enact it on the off-chance that it may be required.