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Housing and Regeneration Bill

Perhaps I may add to the comments of the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee. I apologise if drawing on one’s personal experience is not always a brilliant idea; it is better to get on to the general propositions. I have been the chief executive of a sizeable non-departmental public body and the chairman of a similar body. When you look at an Act of Parliament, particularly as a chief executive, you do not want to read things and then go to your board and say, ““I hope you will forgive me, chairman, but I won’t be able to do this. This is an aspiration of a department, of the Secretary of State or of a political party, but frankly I will not be able to do it. If, as the months roll by, you find that I am not doing it, I hope you will understand””.