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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

I am most grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I think we would be much less concerned about this issue if we were confident that Clause 1 would be used only in the regulatory context. One of the difficulties about accepting what the Minister has said about the amendments is that there is no limiting criterion for Clause 1 which would permit it to operate only within the regulatory context. If the Minister would be prepared to insert the word ““regulatory”” between ““reduce”” and ““burdens”” in the title of Clause 1, Power to remove or reduce burdens, much of what he said would be acceptable.