However, I do not think that is so in this particular case because it is not expected that there will be many alterations. In any case, if it were a negative resolution procedure, it could still be debated. The nature of these provisions is consistent with the use of negative resolutions and it has been endorsed by the Delegated Powers Scrutiny Committee. If we were to use a positive resolution, it could raise the curious spectre of hybridity. Your Lordships may think that that is curious, and up to a point so do I, but apparently that is a fact.
Hybrid procedures apply only to affirmative orders.
They mean that one person who is affected can pray against the order. One merely looks back a few years to the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill. They were the Government, and they walked into the mud. I suggest that we do not do so over this issue. Amendment No. 217, also in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Carter, and my noble friend Lord Stanley is concerned with the use of sale proceeds.