I am a little disappointed, because I wrote to the Public Bill Committee and asked whether it would consider an amendment,
but I gather there was not time for it to do so. This is probably the only time I can raise the matter I want to mention today because, as the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Richard Burden) said, the debates will be quite crowded. When there are huge pieces of infrastructure work such as the proposed 3.5 million square foot rail freight development in my constituency, there is no obligation on developers to at least consider green, environmental measures. It is a loss that we will not get to debate that today.