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Planning Applications

The Minister suggests that in the public interest she will seriously consider my point, to ensure a degree of equality and responsibility in the system—the Equality Bill has just gone through Parliament. People affected, such as the constituents of my right hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset and others in the country, would at least then know that they were not just abandoned to the monopolistic money that is available to the great engines of enterprise and to public authorities.