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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

I am grateful to the Minister and I accept the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Borrie, about ““must””. I should probably have tabled another amendment to change ““must”” to ““can””, which would have dealt with the administrative burden issue that he described. However, I am very surprised. As I said when moving the amendment, I have no problem with MOUs, but I cannot believe that the Gambling Commission should have more links with local authorities than the Charity Commission, the Football Licensing Authority, the Gangmasters' Licensing Authority, the Housing Corporation and Natural England, all of whom seem to me to have substantial links. I had hoped that we might be able to shorten the Bill, which would please the noble Lord, Lord Desai, by allowing them to enter MOUs with those regulators who they felt were appropriate in the circumstances, rather than be prescriptive, as is the Bill. That does not seem to add anything, apart from a list of agencies. We will think about that but, in the mean time, I am grateful to the Minister for this very thorough response and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendment No. 43 not moved.] Clause 12 agreed to. Clause 13 [Duty not to impose burdens etc]: