Member

Will the Minister say where that evidence has come from and where is it shared? That has not been the experience of the highest-performing councils in the land. I am conscious that there has often been a psyche, a psychology or whatever phrase is the right one about the worry about consultation that my noble friend Lady McIntosh pointed out, but practice shows that that has not necessarily happened. Indeed, there could be an opportunity for Ministers to revisit this if this was not the case.