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Manchester City Council Bill [HL]

I am grateful for the contribution from the noble Lord and I share his views regarding the desirability of national legislation on these matters. As he and I have rightly pointed out, a huge amount of parliamentary time has been taken up with a whole series of Private Bills of an identical nature which have tried to achieve the same objective for different councils around the country. On a number of occasions the noble Lord has raised these technical and detailed matters, and they have been very carefully scrutinised by the Select Committees on issues of trading, location and suchlike. Guidance has been emanating from local councils to ensure that these definitions can be properly pursued in due course. I am sure that he will have looked carefully at those deliberations and that as these Bills come into force, we will be able to look carefully at the issues he raised and ensure that they are properly progressed by those local authorities. Motion agreed. Motion on Amendments 2 to 10 Moved by