Housing and Regeneration Bill

My noble friend, who moved Amendment No. 55, and the noble Baroness, who moved Amendment No. 55A, made common cause in expressing curiosity about what went on in the mind of the Secretary of State. If I may say so, if that curiosity were to become endemic, it would on the whole be a dangerous, not a good, development. I am prompted by the debate about best consideration to ask a question that I do not expect the Minister to be able to answer on this occasion, although I should be interested to hear from him if he is able to follow it up. However, the issue may have come up in the debates on best consideration in the Commons, in which case his advisers may have something to add. In listening to the debate about best consideration, I was conscious of the general principle in charity law—I am not a charity lawyer—that the trustees of a charity have a responsibility to secure the best return or the best price for something that belongs to them in the interests of the charity. I wonder whether there are any caveats or considerations in charity law that influence whether the trustees can take something else into account rather than simply the value of the land. As I say, I am perfectly happy to wait until a later stage for an answer to that.