Member

The ironic thing is that the noble Baroness, Lady Finn, whom I am very grateful to have had some conversations with, can defend her position only on the basis that it might possibly, at some future stage, gum up the works in the House of Commons. I think that is very unlikely, having regard to the number of regret Motions that we hear at the moment, but what about the waste of time in this House? What about all those meetings of the Secondary Legislation Committee and of the Delegated Powers Committee, on which I have served on a number of occasions? What about the time that is spent in the Moses Room discussing these matters, and in this Chamber, when there are regret Motions, and nothing happens at the end of it? To accept Amendments 1 and 2 would make a nonsense of any type of reform at all and we would be back at the beginning.