Clause 15

Part of Legal Services Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:30 am on 19 June 2007.

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Photo of Simon Hughes Simon Hughes Shadow Attorney General, Party Chair, Liberal Democrats 10:30, 19 June 2007

I will give way in a second. It is too early in the day to be excitable.

Will the Minister tell us what consideration she has given to other organisations; what advice she has sought; what advice she has been given publicly; whether the matter has been considered by external advisers; whether she has been advised by Committees of either House and what the Government’s conclusions have been across the board? If she does not, it will look like she is pulling the one favoured friend off the shelf and not giving other people in a similar position the same sort of status.