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Legal Services Bill [HL]

That is an absolutely fair point. The purpose of Clause 159, which is about the board’s relationships externally, is to provide for circumstances where its expertise could be made available to organisations such as, in this case—it is perhaps a very good case in point—the Institute of Paralegals. We have tried in subsection (2) to list the kind of things that we have been talking about, such as, "““advice on …""the best regulatory practice, or""the contents of the code of practice or other voluntary arrangements””." It is absolutely not a move away from the focus and primary responsibilities of the LSB; it is not a backdoor route to do things with organisations outside the main regulatory framework that you would not want to do inside; and it is absolutely not about creating lots of additional costs. This may not be a case in point, but it occurred to me that it could be: the knowledge available could be of benefit in addressing the underlying issue of raising standards.