Part of Enterprise Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:45 pm on 30 April 2002.
Miss Melanie Johnson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry
4:45,
30 April 2002
Things are being done in stages, as the hon. Gentleman appreciates, and some are more advanced than others. I have suggested the information that we hope to share with the Committee in more detail before Report. It will be possible to produce the information for some aspects of the Bill, but not all. We intend to produce draft regulations in good time before commencement and, obviously, all the regulations will go through the normal consultation period and time frames that the hon. Gentleman expects and which are the normal practice for the Government today.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 26 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clause 27 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
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