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Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill [HL]

We are envisaging a situation where the National Consumer Council, having been asked by the Government to produce a report, does not wish it to be published. It is a rather incredible notion that someone who has worked on a report would wish to keep it secret. That hardly needs to be considered. I suppose that the remote possibility being imagined by the noble Baroness could have happened at any time in the past, whereby the NCC started work on a subject and then perhaps realised that it would cause such an unfortunate impression of the NCC that it did not want to publish a report. That is difficult to imagine, but if that were the case, it could have happened in the past and it could happen in the future.