Commons Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Byford, for giving me the opportunity to question the provisions under this clause again. Briefly, I think we were probably carried away in Committee by the niceness of having something on paper as to what the draft statutory instruments would look like. I went back and reread the comments of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee on the establishment of commons associations, particularly their constitution and administration, and its suggestion that these should appear on the face of the Bill. It underlined that if they cannot, the Bill must include the provision that the regulations shall be subject to the affirmative procedure. I wondered whether the Government had indeed read those comments. If so, what was their response?