Deregulation Bill Debate
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Lord Spicer
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Deregulation Bill
Lord Spicer Excerpts(9 years, 5 months ago)
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Lord Spicer (Con)
I thank the Minister for giving way. The problem with this is that we have been hearing it for 40 years. I was chairman of something called the Spicer committee 40 years ago, which comprised the National Farmers’ Union, the Government and a whole lot of other bodies. We came up then with what we thought were solutions to try to make it easier for the applicant. Forty years later, we are still in the same position and still being told roughly the same stuff by the Government. This is why it is so difficult to believe what is coming out now.