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Broads Authority Bill (By Order)

The hon. Gentleman is being very balanced in his remarks. He has referred to the difficulty of dealing with the broads as a national park per se because of the navigation interests, and he is grappling with the question of how to get parish representation, which, as he says, has been significant as regards other national parks that do not pose the constitutional challenge that the broads do by their very nature. This may be more of a subject for the Committee, but does he accept that it needs to be approached with care because the wish to involve a parish element needs to be dealt with in a way that does not imbalance the other elements that are represented—for example, the navigation element, which he rightly pointed to as a complicating factor in the whole way in which the Broads Authority is established?