Legal Services Bill [HL]

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for allowing me to interrupt. The point that I was making—though clearly badly—was that, if you included the words ““in partnership””, I am fearful that it would mean that everything that the board did would have to be in partnership, which would be a constraint. We agree completely on the fundamental principle of the link between the oversight regulator and the front-line regulators. The Bill says that they must act only when it is necessary to act. But if you say that everything has to be done in partnership, the difficulty is, as I understand it, that you then cannot act in a way that might be regarded as not in partnership. Quite the opposite, it is saying to the front-line regulator, ““You have done something wrong and we have to change it””.