Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

I should like to know what is to be included in regulations. I have never come across a situation—I do not suppose it exists—where appointed councillors are part and parcel of the council scene. I hope that it will not be extended elsewhere in the system, otherwise we will be discussing this for the next 10 years. The principle of what has been proposed is that there will be appointed councillors. Issues such as who may be appointed and the number, as the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, said, will be left to regulations. One of the most salient issues is how many people can be appointed to a council. Can you have an overwhelming majority of appointed councillors? Perhaps we do not need to have council elections at all: just one or two people could be elected and they could appoint all the rest. What are they there to do? I hope that the Minister will put some flesh on the bones of the provisions. We need to understand them because by the time we get to the stage of regulations, it will be too late.