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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

I quite agree with my noble friend Lord Howard that to make the burden relate to ““an administrative inconvenience”” is the lowest possible hurdle that one can imagine, but then that fits in with the rest of subsection (3), which includes ““a financial cost””. To buy a cup of coffee in the Bishops’ Bar incurs a financial cost. Almost all legislation ever considered would impose a financial cost, and indeed would be an obstacle to efficiency, productivity or profitability. Therefore, I suggest that the whole subsection is otiose. There is no hurdle, and it must come down to the safeguards that we must impose later in the Bill.