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Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill [HL]

I would love to ask a question. The noble Lord’s arguments are well thought out and he knows the subject fantastically well; but I am worried about the flexibility and correctness of what Energywatch has been doing. The noble Lord rightly said that it has been very good and in the previous Sitting of the Grand Committee we were given a good example of its flexibility. But if the National Consumer Council is a fairly moribund, inflexible and reactive, rather than proactive, organisation, how does the noble Lord think that the people who currently work in Energywatch or the new consumer council for water—with whom I am very impressed and are light on their feet—will feel about being subsumed into a moribund, reactive organisation? If I worked for Energywatch, I would not be happy about that at all and I might wish to pack my bags and go away. There is a chance that some of the best people in those organisations who have been running their own operation brilliantly would say, ““Oh well, forget this—I am not going to join this organisation””.