The Economy and Welfare Reform

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:44 pm on 25 May 2005.

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Photo of Angela Eagle Angela Eagle Labour, Wallasey 1:44, 25 May 2005

Is it not important to differentiate between protective regulations, such as those concerned with health and safety and the national minimum wage, and regulations which should be consolidated because they are inefficient—for example, the election rules which many hon. Members will recently have experienced? Will the hon. Gentleman distinguish between those two kinds of regulations? Surely the Liberal Democrats are not saying that they are against protective regulations such as the national minimum wage.