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Legal Services Bill [HL]

After what the Minister has just told the Committee, would she expect that every person applying for an alternative business structure should produce some sort of impact assessment to show what might happen in the area in which they are operating—or would she expect the LSB to have to keep track of every practising lawyer, including not only his name but his geographical locality? It would be quite difficult for someone sitting in an office in London to say what the impact would be in a particular rural area.