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Manchester City Council Bill [Lords](By Order)

I agree with the hon. Gentleman, who is being generous in giving way. May I press him a little more on the situation in Manchester? The Bill applies only to the city of Manchester. He did not answer my question about how many pedlars certificates had been issued by the Greater Manchester police authority. In fact, I can provide him with the answer—204 were issued last year. Were the hon. Gentleman's Bill to become law, those pedlars would not be able to operate in the city of Manchester with the freedom they have enjoyed hitherto, but they would be able to operate elsewhere in Greater Manchester. Will that not merely transfer the problem, just as under the Bournemouth Borough Council Bill problems in Bournemouth would be transferred to Poole or Christchurch?