Member

I understand concerns about leaving the details of such important matters to secondary legislation, but our regulatory framework has developed over many years. It covers extremely technical details and I do not believe that it would be a good use of parliamentary time—as the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, mentioned—or give businesses the clarity they need, to table primary legislation every time such detailed regulation needs to be updated. We believe that the new statutory consultation requirements and changes to the number of Henry VIII powers, along with providing for greater use of the affirmative procedure across the Bill—which we will debate later—provide good guard-rails for the use of the powers under the Bill.