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Manchester City Council Bill [Lords](By Order)

It may be a matter for the police, but in my city the problem is that it is not necessarily the Greater Manchester police who issue the pedlars licences to the pedlars who peddle on the streets of Manchester. I am delighted to learn that pedlars in Dorset are reliably checked, and no doubt we welcome every Dorset pedlar on the streets of Manchester. It may be that the pedlars who cause the nuisance and who run off with their goods when approached—and when asked if they pay tax, run even more quickly—are not from Dorset, but from other areas where the character check is not as rigorous as that performed by the estimable Dorset police force.