Member

With regard to the issue of EDPs, I cannot understand why a compromise cannot be made. My hon. Friend the Member for Poole (Neil Duncan-Jordan) said very clearly that we are talking about millions of people involved in the organisations that are supporting Lords amendment 40 and asking the Government to think again. There is an argument—and I accept it—that EDPs could be successfully applied to certain issues, but there is also a real scepticism about their use, particularly with regard to individual habitats and species. I do not want to get into dormice, to be honest; we have already had that debate.