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Parliamentary Costs Bill [HL]

My Lords, I did consider it, and indeed the noble Earl wrote me a letter to which I have had the discourtesy not to reply. But because he raised the issue once before and because he wrote the letter, I have given it immense thought. I considered whether the Motion should be in name of the Lord Chancellor, and concluded that it should. It is a Law Commission-inspired Bill and it is something that I do as Lord Chancellor. Therefore, ever after—as a result of the noble Earl’s questions and unreplied correspondence, and subject of course to the Table—such Motions will be in the name of the Lord Chancellor. I apologise that it was not done before.