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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [Lords]

I accept the point that my hon. Friend makes, and no doubt he is seeing the benefit in employment and increased income for his constituents, which I and, I suspect, Opposition Members—if they were willing to be completely transparent in this debate—are also seeing in our constituencies. One pays tribute to the ingenuity and talent of business people throughout the UK who flourish under the economic conditions that my right hon. Friends the Chancellor and the Prime Minister have helped to ensure are in place. The hon. Member for Wellingborough spoke about local authorities being far less efficient than small businesses. If he was referring to the experience of small businesses in my constituency suffering under the yoke of Conservative-run Harrow council, I would have sympathy for his comments.