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Companies Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 3)

If I have time, I will give way to the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies). The hon. Member for North-West Cambridgeshire (Mr. Vara) said that he was concerned that there had not been sufficient scrutiny of the Bill. He was so concerned that, one morning in Committee, only the hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Djanogly) was present to defend the Tory line, and there was no scrutiny whatever by any other member of the Committee. When we started to discuss important issues to do with the takeover panel, I was impressed by the ability of the hon. Member for Huntingdon to talk for more than two hours—in fact, he talked the sitting out—without saying anything to purpose. [Interruption.] Opposition Members do not like being brought to account.