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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

I am grateful to the Minister although I am disappointed that he should suggest that my question is somehow an attack on the devolution settlement. If I may say with great respect at the end of a rather long day, that is an unworthy suggestion. I made no reference at all to anything to do with the Scottish Parliament or, indeed, the Northern Ireland Assembly; that is not part of what I am trying to do. I am trying to clarify the Bill and the fact that the Minister had to read an extensive and quite confusing brief to explain how the Bill applied shows that it is not easy to understand. If he could see the point that I was driving at, which is to make a relatively short amendment to Clause 71, clarity could be achieved not only for the legal cognoscenti but for someone looking at the Bill as a layman. At the moment, the clause is very confusing for the layman. I am extremely disappointed that he could not even bring himself to accept that. A lot more could have been done to make this particular law accessible and understandable.