Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 24 Ebrill 2001.
I cannot believe that the Minister is convincing even himself with this flannel. Clearly, he is not convincing any of his colleagues. On 31 July last year, he said that he was
minded to introduce a requirement for full planning permission.
He reneged on that statement, and his alternative proposals were rightly shredded by the Select Committee on Trade and Industry, which had a Labour majority. The Committee pointed out that he planned to
entrench the unpopular and confusing prior approval regime
and
entrench existing perverse incentives to operators to put up masts below an arbitrarily chosen height limit".
Does he agree with his colleagues on the Committee that his policy is perverse, unpopular and confusing?