I am worried about making bad law. No law is better than bad law and what the Minister is introducing here, without having all the information put before us, could be deemed bad law. It is all very well to speak of giving greater powers to local authorities. Words are fine, but the actions have not followed through in that regard. If one asked local authority members whether they were better off before Better Local Government or after it, many would say they were much worse off, that more powers were being vested in officials and unelected persons rather than in local authority members.