When David Heath asked in the Commons for guidance to be issued to local authorities under the current legislation, none appeared.

Now we have new legislation (the words), we have guidance coming out of our ears, all trying to convince us that the words of the new legislation don't really mean what they do.

Session are still at threat and you can be locked-up for organising one in an unlicensed pub. That looks as if it will be just about every small pub in the land, where you may wish to hold one.

They still keep banging away with the word 'spontaneous', even though it does not appear in the Bill and no one knows what it means. It means what a local authority wants it to mean.