Part of Enterprise Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 10:45 am ar 7 Mai 2002.
I appreciate that, but the early timetabling will take place within the confines of the two-year maximum, however much we try to introduce a discipline in timetabling.
Is any guidance provided with respect to the nine-month timetable for monopolies inquiries? If most such monopoly investigations take seven or eight months—in other words, nine months provides a strict discipline—that suggests having a lesser timetable, rather than merely relying on the fact that the two years is a long stop and that the investigation may take less time.