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Legal Services Bill [HL]

My Lords, briefly, I support the amendment. It deals with the important question of cost and how it might be possible that ill-advised regulation drove those regulated away from one body and into the arms of another which might do a less good job. It would be comforting if the Minister could satisfy us that other parts of the Bill ensure that the board and regulators do not feel obliged to act in that way. My noble friend Lord Kingsland expressed this as a probing amendment to some extent. It is sensible probe and I look forward to the Minister’s answer.