Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

I listen to this debate very much as an outsider. I am not a local government person, although the Local Government Association has been in touch with me about the Bill. The amendment’s wording is a little over the top—if the noble Lord does not mind me saying so—and has a sense of interference about it. I know from what the Local Government Association has written to me that it is sensitive about possible interference and so on, and does not want to feel fettered in the use of its powers.