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HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe process is finally complete.02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI thought I had explained this in my earlier statements. I am saying that the power to extend rests with UK Ministers. Many of these areas of law cut across both UK-wide and…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am not sure I want to go on the public record saying that I have great faith in lawyers, given some of the debates we have had in this House. I explained the position on the…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillWe discussed consumer protections in an earlier group. The noble Baroness may have made the same points then. I do not see the point of repeating the same arguments yet again. If…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillIt is a long-established principle that removing and reforming unnecessary and outdated regulation will help the economy to grow. I certainly believe that; the noble Lord might…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords—02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI thank the noble Baroness for her suggestion of doing some breathing exercises. I apologise to the noble Baroness, Lady Crawley, if I was maybe a bit short, but I was seeking to…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillLet me explain the position. We are downgrading the status, if it needs to be changed through primary legislation—if it was introduced by the EU, through what I would submit was a…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillUltimately, this is a political point. The most successful economies in the world are those which have relatively low levels of regulation. The noble Lord and I may have a…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI know that the noble Baroness feels passionately about labour regulations. We had an extensive debate about this in the first grouping, on labour law. I am happy to go through…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI know that many noble Lords want to make the point that, somehow, major pieces of retained EU law will suddenly just accidentally disappear from the statute book. We have…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI will take the intervention from the noble Lord, Lord Beith.02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillCan I explain this point please, and then I will take the intervention from the noble Lord? We are satisfied that departments know the law for which they are responsible. They do…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI just explained that point in my earlier answer. The noble Baroness can look at Hansard and come back to me if she is not satisfied with that explanation. To go back to the…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am afraid that the noble Lord is talking nonsense, as he often does, on this regulation.02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillFor the purposes of clarification, I was merely repeating a similar point to the one made by my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe. We will reflect on whether it is possible to…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillCan somebody remind me what Amendment 43 is, please? I thought it was in my notes.02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI think I referred to that in an earlier part of my speech. I addressed Amendments 42 and 43, but it all comes back to this central point of the so-called accidental sunsetting…02 Mar 2023