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Legal Services Bill [HL]

Before my noble friend replies, I should like to draw attention to the clause’s heading: ““Performance targets and monitoring””. When I was in government, they tended to be called ““performance indicators””. There was a notion that one person’s performance indicator was another person’s poison. I suspect that that remains true, whether they are called performance targets or something else. The noble Baroness has wisely said that the matter should be looked at as a whole and in the round. The noble Lord, Lord Brennan, commented on the exact wording of the amendments. I simply urge the noble Baroness to say that she will reflect on this. Her words may be valuable in Pepper v Hart terms, if it ever came to that, but it is much better to have good phraseology in the Bill.