Legal Services Bill [HL]

I am a new boy here. Is the problem with this clause really subsection (4)? Without that, subsections (1), (2) and (3) make a lot of sense. I have always thought that liberalisation on the whole is a good thing. Monitoring and research into alternative business structures would give assurance to consumers and tell people who are starting them that they will be monitored and researched. I would have thought that that would help. I speak only as someone who worked on the Stephen Lawrence inquiry. It was interesting that the Home Secretary said that he would lay before Parliament his action plan on how the recommendations were working. That actually meant that the police were carrying out what was required. Because it was to be laid before Parliament, progress was that much better. I would have thought that this would save people from acting in haste but repenting at leisure. They would know that they were to be monitored, studied and researched, as required under the Act. In addition, in terms of consumers, how will you cure the unintended consequences? Being a new boy, I would go for subsections (1), (2) and (3) of the proposed new clause and remove subsection (4). But I do not know how this House works. In the house called the General Synod of the Church of England, it would be possible to remove it.