Wiltshire (Structural Change) Order 2008

I am grateful to the noble Lord for going through that process. He was absolutely correct about the judgment that we had before Christmas. We were able to proceed. However, as I said in my opening speech, we wanted to reduce the delay and disruption as much as possible to give some certainty to those authorities with which we had agreed proposals. Whether the order is quashed will now be within the discretion of the court and we will have to await the judgment. The court could find against the Government but could also decide not to quash the order, so there are clearly a number of possible options. We shall just have to await the judgment of the court.