Member

My noble friend Lord Blencathra, in his Amendment 11A, poses some genuinely important questions about how the relationship between the two Houses would work. In 2012, when we looked at this in detail before the Bill was published, we rather imagined that the powers of the House of Lords and the House of Commons would remain the same. My noble friend was kind enough to refer to a study and a report that I published and presented to the Government about secondary legislation. I have to say that, from that moment to this, it has hardly been mentioned again and has sunk without trace. That does not mean that it is not still relevant and important, and I hope that it will be taken up again.