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European Union (Amendment) Bill

Once again, I ask what the noble Lord’s sources are. I recognise some aspects of Professor Helen Wallace’s paper for the European Commission and perhaps some of his sources are what she actually said. It is a paper that I am familiar with. She said that the speed of decision-making has, indeed, increased somewhat in the past few years, but that the number of Acts passed has not increased. With the preclusion of a large amount of legislation, speed has increased but the mass of legislation has not.