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We should know what the position is, it should be transparent and there should be codes of practice. Interim codes of practice are at the heart of this proposed bill, but this committee never sees those codes.
The bill is complex and the access code adds further complexities. Do you think that it would be useful to transfer some of the detail from the bill to the access code?
The proposed membership of the cross-party group complies with rule 2 in section 8.3 of the code of conduct. I take it that members are content to approve the group.
Amendments 59 and 61 provide definitions of the code of construction practice and the local construction code that are provided for in amendment 50.The standards of mitigation that are set out in those documents and in subsequent local construction plans will now have to be applied by contractors.
The thing that we would like to be included in the bill would facilitate good use of the code, so we would be able to see how the code could be changed in the future.
It helped me considerably in making up my mind.I would have preferred many of those matters to be dealt with in the access code. I press the minister further and reserve my right to discuss the code with him so that it reflects what he said this morning.