Legal Services Bill [HL]

The Minister has been most helpful. I emphasise that those who have been talking to me about this do not intend in any way to resile from the principle of separation. Indeed, they entirely accept it. It is simply that their size and the resources available to them make physical separation impossible, a separation that perhaps we shall see in the case of the Law Society. The Minister has taken that point extremely well. The noble Lord, Lord Hunt, is not in his place at the moment. I cannot explain why these points were not made to the Joint Committee, but they have certainly been made to the Opposition. The Minister has given a very helpful response, so I have no difficulty in begging the leave of the House to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 30 [Performance targets and monitoring]: [Amendment No. 46A had been withdrawn from the Marshalled List.]