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Legal Services Bill [HL]

I am always delighted to broaden things out. One of the advantages of Committee is that it enables us to look more widely. Perhaps I may remind the noble Lord that the OFT’s competition scrutiny is provided for in Clauses 56 to 60. That might address some of his concern. Within the Compensation Act, with the regulation transferring to the Legal Services Board, the OFT’s position has to shift slightly. I shall be happy to talk further about competition. It is an important area. We had a number of interesting discussions in Committee on the then Compensation Bill about the meaning of ““promote””; the relationship with the Office of Fair Trading; the importance of competition to benefit consumers—we broadly accepted it in that piece of legislation as we probably shall do in this—making sure that the language is right; and so on. It would be interesting to do so again.