Clause 19
Company Law Reform Bill [Lords]
11:30 am
Quentin Davies (Grantham and Stamford, Conservative)
That is simply not good enough. The Government are not treating Parliament as Parliament ought to be treated. If there are model articles and other documents referred to in the text of the Bill that are germane to proceedings, they should be distributed to Members of Parliament. There are all kinds of information on all kinds of websites across the Government; Members of Parliament cannot be expected simply to trail through every Government website on the off-chance that they will discover something relevant to the Bill. It is up to the Government, who are submitting this draft legislation to us, to ensure that we see the relevant documents.
I have not seen a copy of the model articles; I do not know whether Committee colleagues have been luckier than me. If the Minister has a copy, I should be grateful if she passed it to me.