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Housing and Regeneration Bill

The Minister has taken the words out of my own mouth. I was going to suggest exactly that, and I am grateful to him for the offer. The legislation may be benign or redundant—or otiose, as people sometimes call it in this House. In other words, it is not required. The Minister kept saying ““rarely used””. I wonder if that is a euphemism for ““never used””. I do not know. If that is the case, we do not need it. This is the point I was making previously about burial grounds: putting legislation on the statute book that is not required is bad practice and bad law, and we should not be doing it. I suspect that when this legislation was first put on the statute book, the statutory undertakers were all nationalised industries or government bodies.