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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

I support the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart, and I wholly endorse the argument he advanced in support of it. I have only one question for the Minister, which is in the context of the words in the previous Act. In the 2001 Act, the equivalent provision states that, "““a Minister of the Crown may by order make provision for the purpose of reforming legislation … with a view to one or more of the following objects””." It goes on to list a series of purposes, one of which is identical to the one we are considering in subsection (2). Nowhere do the words ““he considers”” appear. So I presume that this is one of the deliberate qualitative differences between the order-making powers in this Bill and those contained in the 2001 Act. Is that so? If it is, why has this change been necessary?