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Manchester City Council Bill [Lords](By Order)

My hon. Friend made a statement at the outset, which I am still waiting for him to justify as it represents a complete departure from anything said earlier in the debate. He said he wanted pedlars and street traders to be treated in exactly the same way. Does he really mean that, because the concern has been repeatedly expressed in the debate that some pedlars behave as though they are street traders—which is something quite different—but do so in a way that makes it impossible to make the law enforceable?