Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

I declare the same kind of interest as my noble friend who last spoke. There is sometimes confusion in Government about regulation. Many regulations are extremely good and opposition to regulation as a kind of mantra is peculiarly boring. Unfortunately, we have just gone through a Bill in which some of the bits of deregulation were of no importance whatever, yet we still have bits of regulation like this, which could make a difference and could easily be improved. The sort of regulation that people most dislike is when they have to do the same thing at least twice. This is one example of that. My noble friend is to be congratulated on raising it on this occasion. I hope that my noble friend the Minister will be prepared to go a little further than he suggested that she might, because this is what annoys people. I know it does not matter very much, but it is one of a whole lot of things that annoys people that add up to something that does matter. If we could just get rid of this, it would also suggest that the Government and authorities were competent, whereas this glacial movement possibly suggests the opposite.