Member

When we see a wasteful regulatory process, I am afraid it is of no use at all; it is a complete waste of time and effort, and we should be very strong on it. I take my noble friend the Minister’s comment that we should wait for the task force. My plea to him and his department, because I think the justification process is under Defra, is that they take the task force recommendations seriously. I do not know when we are going to be on Report, but I suspect it is going to be late autumn, given the legislative load we have at the moment. There is time to amend on Report and put in place a lot of the recommendations that will come from it. Having said that, I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.