Regulations to deal with deficiencies arising from withdrawal - Independent Report

Part of European Union (Withdrawal) Bill – in the House of Commons at 3:45 pm on 12 December 2017.

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Photo of Dominic Grieve Dominic Grieve Conservative, Beaconsfield 3:45, 12 December 2017

Such measures may act as a constraint, but once Ministers have taken the plunge, there will not be much that we can do. That is precisely why there is a menu of options. I personally would prefer Ministers to do a proper exercise of asking themselves whether they really need individual powers in their current extensive form. That would be the easier course, and it would provide much greater certainty and avoid the lawyers, although it might do my hon. and learned Friend out of a brief fee or two, but lawyers on the whole ought not to benefit from defective legislation in so far as possible. I am grateful to the House for listening, and I look forward to hearing the response of my hon. Friend the Minister.