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Planning Bill

moved Amendment No. 119: 119: Clause 14, page 8, line 2, after ““State”” insert ““shall keep under review the thresholds provided under sections 15(2)(c), 15(3)(b), 17(5), 18(2), 19(1), 22(3), 23(3), 25(4), 28(1) and 29(2) and”” The noble Baroness said: I shall speak also to Amendment Nos. 120 and 121. Reading the amendments together in respect of the review of what should be included and excluded as a nationally significant infrastructure project, noble Lords will see that my proposal amounts to the Secretary of State keeping the thresholds under review and being able to amend them, but not being able to add or remove projects. Addition and removal seem to give the Secretary of State more power than is appropriate. I acknowledge that the clause requires an affirmative resolution and that the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee considered the point and let it go. However, in doing so, it stated: "““We should note that the memorandum has not sought to make a case for the removal of types of project, though we assume that the Minister will be able to do so to the House””." This is my invitation to the Minister to make that case. I beg to move.