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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

I do not know how many hours, weeks and months the House spent discussing fox hunting. If the right hon. Gentleman thinks that any Minister could propose a deregulation order that would sail through a Select Committee, he predicts a future House that I do not think will be in place. However, there is another point that has been raised in relation to the Bill, which relates to the extreme Government point, as we might wish to term it. What if these powers could be used by an extreme Government to destroy our freedoms? If we ever had an extreme Government in the United Kingdom, I do not think that at the top of our list of worries about what they might do would be regulatory reform orders. They would be able to use primary legislation to pursue their ends—a point that I ask the House to bear in mind.