My Lords, I have a question for the Minister about timing. There are three separate contributors to a policy that the amendment seeks to
address. One is the report of my noble friend Lord Heseltine, to which we hope there will be a response quite soon. Separately, there is the request in this amendment that, within one year of the second round of city deals being completed, a report would be produced. That could take us through to the autumn of 2014. Then, quite separately, there was the Deputy Prime Minister’s commitment at the end of October, which I quoted in Committee, when he said of the second wave:
“while it’s too early to talk exactly about what a third Wave might look like, I very much see this as a step in a journey”.
We have all these things. It seems that there might be an opportunity for a round table discussion over the summer once some of the timing of some of these matters is a bit clearer.