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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

The more I listen to this debate, the more astonished I am at how local authorities carry on. Noble Lords opposite are business-like, and it is business-like to use as few words as possible, to get on with the job and to do it well. If you add that the LBRO should do things proactively and encourage economic progress, why not add happiness? Do we really believe that economic progress will occur if you put those words into the Bill, and that economic regression will occur if you do not? The LBRO will be neutral to whether there is economic progress or not. As long as it does its job effectively, that is all you need. You do not need to pile it with multiple objectives; that diverts its energy. I wish that I had intervened in this regulatory debate earlier; I could have cut out a few of these objectives, which seem totally unnecessary.