Member

Before they bring legislation forward to us, the Government should give us the information we need about the unintended consequences. It should not be for the Opposition or anybody else to have to table an amendment to force them to review the policy after a period; it should be built into the Bill that they give us those answers. The frustrating part for us on these Benches is that we have endless debates, time and again, about what some of us up north call “the blindingly obvious”, which is that you set out the reason for your actions before you implement them, then we do not have to react to it.