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Planning Bill

Perhaps I may take the Minister back to a serious point concerning Clause 202(2) and (3). I am increasingly lacking in confidence that the Bill will work under the Government’s terms. Accepting that the Government want to set out the scope—I think that that was the term used by the Minister—of the types of infrastructure that a developer might be expected to fund under Clause 202(2), in order to have that certainty why are regulations needed under Clause 202(3) to, "““add, remove or vary an entry in the list of matters””?" It does not refer to the scope, but, I repeat, to the matters. I simply cannot understand how those two statements can lie together. I am not asking for a reply now. I am asking for this to be considered as perhaps the one constructive thing that I might have said this afternoon.