Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

moved Amendment No. 212ZA: 212ZA: Clause 110, page 70, line 20, at end insert ““but, where such a target is in conflict with a policy set out in an statutory plan or strategy adopted by a local authority, the policy in the plan or strategy shall prevail”” The noble Lord said: This amendment states that if a statutory plan or strategy is adopted by a local authority which conflicts with a local area agreement, the statutory plan or strategy should prevail. It is a probing amendment. The Minister will no doubt say that the conflict to which it refers will never occur, but because there are different processes producing different plans and strategies, I doubt that that is the case. The Minister was kind enough to supply me, when I asked a Question on the subject, with a long list of plans and strategies which local authorities were bound by law to produce. I was going to read it out this evening, but in view of the time I shall not do so—the details are in any case set out in her Written Answer in Hansard. I was grateful for that information. It was revealing. My guess is that it was not comprehensive in terms of plans and strategies which may not be in legislation but are in statutory guidance and so on that is sent out to local authorities. There are probably more than she says. Certainly, in the authorities that I know, they add up to a large pile on the shelf. What happens if there is a conflict? I beg to move.