Clause 2 - Provision
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
2:30 pm
David Howarth (Shadow Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Cambridge, Liberal Democrat)
Based on what the Minister says, the crucial point is the question of the application of the Bill to itself. He refers constantly to the protections in clause 3. We shall come to them in a while; they are not as adequate as he claims they are. Surely he must take the point that the Bill itself could be used to remove those very protections, and that he should therefore, at the very least, accept new clause 7.