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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

My Lords, I hope that I have never said, either in Committee or elsewhere, that it is necessary to be on a body for five years to get to know the ropes. I expressed my view that five years should be the maximum period, because it takes a year or two—especially for a part-timer—to be useful and to get to know the ropes. Then one needs a reasonable time to be useful, rather than thinking, ““In a few months’ time, I have to leave””. That was all I was saying. I hope that I did not go as far as the extreme statement attributed to me by the noble Lord.