Member

I am pleased to see the chair of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee listening to this. I hoped I might persuade him to join in. I do not want to steal his thunder, but he has rather encouraged me to do so. The committee has drawn the instrument to the attention of the House on the grounds that it is politically or legally important—I would say both—because of the underlying public policy. I am sure that the Minister will have had drawn to his attention the committee’s concerns, not just on this instrument but over a period, about the quality of explanatory information coming from the Home Office. The report talks of