Member

The noble Lord also mentioned the Attorney-General’s much-praised Bingham lecture last November. In many ways, it is sad that the Attorney-General—who was in the Chamber earlier—is not here to give us his view of whether this conforms with the very high standard he set in that lecture. This amendment would do exactly what I would have thought the Attorney-General would like to see. It would give Parliament time to scrutinise changes, give businesses time to prepare and, probably most important of all for us as legislators, give us the opportunity to understand fully the real-world consequences, intended or otherwise, of these regulatory shifts. I strongly support these three amendments.