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Companies Bill [Lords]

I had not intended to speak, but I have sat through most of the debates, as I think the right hon. Lady will agree, and although there are no issues that I want to raise in detail in relation to this series of amendments and new clauses, I do not think that it is proper to let this opportunity go past without saying that there are a lot of other issues in the rest of the Bill that I would want to raise if we had time. There is no other opportunity to say that. The point about the House of Commons is that it is increasingly true that the Bills that we pass are badly thought out, badly understood and badly debated. That is the fault of this Government, who use the House of Commons disgracefully. There are whole areas of the Bill that my constituents want me to debate, but the Government and the Minister have stopped me doing so. It is a disgrace. Question put and agreed to. Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill. Question, That Government new clauses 19 to 57 be brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill, put and agreed to.