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Draft Financial Services Bill (Joint Committee)

My hon. Friend is getting to the nub of one of the key issues. Is not the dilemma that, when wishing to amend a Standing Committee or any other Committee of the House, the modernisation of this place has not gone far enough for anything other than the usual channels to determine such things? It is only in the last year that Select Committees have been elected by the House. Modernisation has only gone so far. In raising such matters in the House, we are rather trapped in the antiquated systems of how we can object.