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Manchester City Council Bill [Lords](By Order)

The hon. Lady, with her eagle eye, will have spotted that the Minister said that if the research found there was a ““national problem””, the Government would consider whether they needed to act. As has been reported, the problem is by its nature likely to be local and possibly sporadic. The research will not find a national problem, but that does not mean that there should not be a national framework of the type that she describes.