Planning Bill

I am most grateful for that. I apologise for detaining the Committee a moment or two longer. We may come to this matter on Clause 13, but there is a real concern here. The noble Lord, Lord Turnbull, will know from being in the Civil Service that there is a document called The Judge Over Your Shoulder. It was so important for senior officials to realise that that was the environment in which they had to operate that it was quite recently republished. I find this a disturbing prospect because it gives rise to a significant degree of uncertainty about how the whole system will operate. It is a sort of unexploded bomb that can blow up the best-devised plans and processes and make everyone have to start again.