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Manchester City Council Bill [Lords] and Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [Lords]

My hon. Friend raises an important point. Obviously, I have not been able to do my own direct research on this matter. [Interruption.] My hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (John Bercow) sounds doubtful about that, but I assure him that that is the correct state of play. I have before me paragraph 213 of the Durham university report. I shall not quote all of it, but it says:""The direct effects of private acts are difficult to assess, in terms of being able to eliminate illegal street traders. With regard to the Acts introduced in 2006 (Leicester, Liverpool and Maidstone), the effects may not be fully understood for some time. One of their most obvious impacts is that genuine pedlars remove themselves from areas where they must trade from door-to-door or face possible criminalisation."" So one might say that the jury is still out on that. However, this issue is dealt with in a lot more detail than my summary of it here.