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Proceeding contribution from Lord Mackay of Clashfern (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Monday, 28 March 2011. It occurred during Debate on bill on Public Bodies Bill [HL].

Public Bodies Bill [HL]

My Lords, it is important that this is just a preliminary stage to enable this consultation to happen and, if the results of the consultation are sufficiently clear, to go forward with an order that is, as I understand it, amendable—my noble friend will correct me if I am wrong but I think I am right. If one had to do a lot of these exercises through full primary legislation, not only in competition but in all the other areas that this Bill covers, one would have no time in Parliament to do anything else. A review of this kind requires some mechanism of this sort, and we have endeavoured to make the mechanism as close and as secure as we can. It would be a pity to lose this opportunity to do what might be possible in this way, and, so far as I am concerned, putting this into the Bill at this stage is a step in the right direction.

Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
726 c989-90 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Consumers Administration of justice BBC Closures Competition Competition Commission Finance Donors Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Libraries Ministerial powers Protection Organs Public bodies Mergers Passengers Office of Fair Trading Non-departmental public bodies Ofcom National parks National park authorities Scotland Standards Tribunals Young offenders Transport Wales Welsh language Research Television S4C Youth justice Broads Authority Civil Justice Council Human Tissue Authority National Archives Youth Justice Board Passenger Focus Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council Advisory Council on Public Records Advisory Council on National Records and Archives Norfolk and Suffolk Broads
Legislation
Public Bodies Bill (HL) 2010-12
Link
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