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Clearly, we are looking at a lease and leasehold law. That is the reason for clarifying that particular issue in that particular way.

The reality is that there are 10,000 animals of various species in the zoo.

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will take your remark into account.

I have not mentioned the immense zoological research done at the zoo by world-famous scientists.

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. That is what we hope to hear from the Minister later on.

The King is, of course, greatly enamoured of both wildlife and London zoo, and I am therefore delighted that he has given King’s consent to

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention.

My hon. Friend and I share the view that leasehold should be abolished completely, with freehold the norm and commonhold in flats.

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. How long a lease extension will be granted for is obviously a matter for debate.

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. We started with a provision to extend the lease from its current form to 100 years.