§ Queen's recommendation having been signified—
10.30 pmThe Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department (Mr. John M. Taylor)I beg to move,
That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill [Lords], it is expedient to authorise—248 It is a pleasure to be associated with the fast tracking of the Law Commission proposals.
- (a) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable out of money provided by Parliament under any other enactment, and
- (b) the payment into the Consolidated Fund of any increase attributable to the Act in the sums to be paid into that Fund under any other enactment.
§ Mr. Paul Boateng (Brent, South)This is a modest and uncontroversial proposal and we intend to give it a fair wind. The thanks of the whole House are due to Lord Brightman for the manner in which he dealt with the matter in the other place and got the Bill into its present shape. We hope that the Government will enable some 36 other matters in all of which the Law Commission is eagerly awaiting the disposal to be proceeded with in a similar fashion in order that the backlog of law reform and the concerns expressed by the President of the Law Commission, Mr. Justice Brooke, can be dealt with adequately. With that, we wish the measure well.
§ Question put and agreed to.