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In short, it can take a long time for young people to recover from a recession. Even today, some people who were affected by the recession in the 1980s are still paying a price.
We would encourage local authorities to be as timeous as they possibly can be, but some of their feedback was about giving them the flexibility rather than setting a specific date. All the reports coming in on the exact same date would obviously impact on the speed at which rent control areas could be designated.
The UK Government insists that the aim is to “take back control of our statute book” and to do so by a sunset date of the final day of 2023. All inherited EU laws will expire on that date unless they are expressly preserved in some form.
As I said, the thing that causes greatest disruption on the road network is driver confusion, so we did not want to put out dates and then change them; rather, we wanted to put out dates about which we were reasonably certain.
I have one little point—I think that the bill should try to get the registration dates in sync. Rather than having that random six-monthly requirement, where everyone will have different return dates, we should have one date.