Clause 8 - REGULATIONS: SUPPLEMENTARY

Part of Legal Deposit Libraries Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:30 pm on 4 June 2003.

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Photo of Malcolm Moss Malcolm Moss Conservative, North East Cambridgeshire 5:30, 4 June 2003

I am most grateful for the Minister’s assurances. We know that he is an extremely honourable man and will carry this through, provided, of course, that he is still in post. He has done some sterling work recently with the Communications Bill and Licensing Bill, and may well be promoted in the next few weeks. To whom will we turn then? For the benefit of the Committee, as well as those who take an interest in these things and who will be avidly reading Hansard tomorrow, if there is a change in circumstances and in the personnel of his Department, the commitment that he has given today about the committee or panel—call it what one will—which he hopes to form very quickly, is really a commitment given by the Secretary of State and the Department. Heads are nodding on the Government Benches. It would be nice to have the words in print and perhaps the Minister can provide them in his response.