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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

I should like to spend just one minute thanking hon. Members, including the members of Select Committees, for taking the work that we have done on the Regulatory Reform Committee so seriously. In particular, I thank the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform, my hon. Friend the Member for East Renfrewshire (Mr. Murphy), for the work that he did when he was the Minister with responsibility for the Bill, and I thank the new Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-East (Mr. McFadden) for the sympathetic way in which he has dealt with his new responsibility. We have made progress, but more steps are still necessary, and I urge Ministers to think carefully about the commitments that they have given during our proceedings over the past two days. I am certain that we will have a Bill that enables us to proceed productively, by deregulating in the way that all parties in the House want.