Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

The noble Lord did not quite put it like that, but that was clearly what he intended. I admit that when I first saw Amendments Nos. 3 and 4—I think that they are a pair—it seemed to me that there would be greater flexibility to the Secretary of State and the chair of the new body if they were able to keep that balance, which is essential, between continuity and turnover of people. If you can serve three terms of three years, with a total of nine years, and everyone else has three terms of three years, I believe that statistically you can achieve a balance of continuity more easily than if people can do only two terms, with half leaving every time you get to the end of the five-year period. It seems to me from a management point of view that it might be easier to do this as my noble friend suggests rather than as the Bill states.