Member

Let us look at the planning Bill so far. The Government asked us in the usual channels, as the noble Baroness told us, whether we could undertake to complete Committee before the Recess. As good-faith partners, we agreed to that—not without cost in sitting hours, and not without criticism, I may say, from some of my noble friends behind me. We kept our word. We sat for 65 hours in Committee, including, with our agreement, morning sittings and, with our agreement, going late. There was no Tory obstruction: quite the reverse. There was co-operation, as the noble Baroness acknowledged.