The Succession to the Crown Bill was introduced into the House Commons on 13 December 2012. Given the subject matter of the bill, it is legislation of first-class constitutional importance. The Committee heard from the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, that the decision to fast-track the Succession to the Crown Bill was made for pragmatic business management reasons. The Committee says that fast-tracking legislation for this reason is ‘never appropriate’. Fast-track procedures will ‘rarely, if ever, be appropriate for significant constitutional matters’. The Committee draws attention to recent commentary about potential unintended consequences of the Bill, and concludes that Parliament should be given the time to debate such matters fully. It concludes that ‘in parliamentary scrutiny there can emerge issues which had been previously overlooked or hidden.