Part of Deregulation Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:15 pm on 11 March 2014.
I was on the pre-legislative scrutiny Committee, and it became clear to me that the Law Commission does an excellent job of getting rid of redundant legislation that is sometimes decades, possibly even hundreds of years old, about which there is no controversy. Its Bills, which are typically introduced every couple of years, generally pass through the House without opposition. The Government are now trying to pretend that some of their proposals are uncontroversial, like those dealt with by the Law Commission. They are not; they are things that should be debated and legislated upon, and indeed opposed by us if we feel inclined to do so.