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Northern Ireland (Regional Rates and Energy) (No. 2) Bill

I appreciate the Secretary of State’s dilemma. She is having to act on the basis of advice that she is getting from the Department for the Economy, a Department whose advice has been shown to be flawed in the past. Does she understand that we need to examine this closely? She has been told that, legally, she has to do this, and we in this place have to accept that, but we also have to scrutinise the legislation. I hope that she can give me sufficient reassurance that she will note our examination of this matter and our recommendations on it, and that she will not take at face value the advice that she has been given from a Department that has erred in the past. I very much hope that she will be able to tailor her remarks accordingly,

and I am all agog as to what commitment she can give to providing the scrutiny that I have described in my amendment.

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Reference

655 c1055 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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