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Housing and Regeneration Bill

I do not know what the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, is going to say but I think that the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, has just said that this creates a ““situation of privilege””. If the statutory undertaker and the Homes and Communities Agency do not agree, there is a legal way out, but presumably that would not be possible for anyone else in the country. Would a change in the regulations which apply to a statutory undertaker dealing with the Homes and Communities Agency subsequently be available for the statutory undertaker to use elsewhere? That would be a fairly covert way of extending the remit. I go back to what I said: I think that it is inappropriate here.