Law Commission Bill [Lords]

Perhaps the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury is really excited about it. I told them that the Bill contains nothing that any Member could not do by asking the Lord Chancellor/Secretary of State for Justice, "Why haven't the Government implemented this proposal from the Law Commission; and when do they intend to implement it?" We do not need a report some 18 months after the event, saying, "These are the outstanding proposals, what are we going to do about them?" I have said to senior people in the Law Commission that they need to engage with the House, and perhaps the other House, to carry forward their proposals, to persuade colleagues to take them up in private Members' Bills, or to put pressure on the Government to find parliamentary time to implement them.