Sunday Trading

Lord Skelmersdale Excerpts

Monday 14th December 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Neville-Rolfe]

My Lords, we have not taken decisions yet in relation to our proposals, or on what legislative vehicle would be appropriate.

[Lord Skelmersdale (Con)]

My Lords, will not such devolution result in a postcode lottery? Can one imagine, for example, a chain of garden centres across the country—in which, incidentally, I have no interest to declare—being allowed to open in local authority A and not local authority B?

[Baroness Neville-Rolfe]

My Lords, I think you would indeed get differences, and that would reflect different councils and the different views of different elected representatives. I am glad that my noble friend mentioned garden centres because the Horticultural Trades Association is one of the bodies that is particularly keen to see reform, so that people can buy their plants and pots on a Sunday.