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Legal Services Bill [HL]

My Lords, I strongly agree with my noble friend Lord Kingsland who put this amendment and those linked with it in context. This is probably one of the most important debates that we are going to have. During the course of the Joint Select Committee meetings, we spent considerable time seeking reassurance from the Minister that the regulator would administer a light-touch system of regulation. I recall that the Minister’s colleague, Bridget Prentice, emphatically told us just that: "““Where the approved bodies are operating effectively, the LSB will leave them to get on with that job properly.?" That has been the whole basis on which we have proceeded. I await the Minister’s words with great anticipation, as I sensed, during the course of that important debate in Committee, that she was exceedingly sympathetic to the approach that we are now taking. I look forward to her accepting this important amendment.