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Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009

I make one point in support of the regulations, which is to congratulate whoever in the Government or the department was responsible for producing them in this format. Before the Minister’s time, when we ground our way through the Companies Bill in the august Chamber, we argued from these Benches that it was important that the Company Law Reform Bill became a consolidating Act, for the reasons that the Minister gave—that it was important that people could read legislation in a digestible form, rather than having to leap from one section and one Act to the other, the only benefit of which being to increase the profits of Butterworths. I welcome this approach and hope that the Government will continue to follow it when we have further legislation in this area.