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Financial Services Bill

My Lords, the Minister is getting a bit carried away this evening. If we look back at the Northern Rock legislation, it was not just that my party did not object; we took every possible step to assist the passage of that Bill, which of course involved dispensing with all the usual intervals and expediting the process. As it happens, I was not here but my noble friend Lord Hunt handled that Bill with my noble friend Lord De Mauley. I am well aware that my party bent over backwards, not only here but in another place, to ensure that that legislation went through.