How gratifying that the Legal Services Board has decided that solicitors have so little to do and such a profitable business model that they should spend money, time and effort in keeping records of the diversity of their workforce.

At a time when government is pledging to reduce red tape, which by general consensus is seen as a break on economic growth and performance, the LSB sees its role as adding to the burden of legal practices.

We should perhaps expect nothing else from a body whose entire raison d’être is regulating regulators, but they should stop trying to micro-manage firms and concentrate on their core function.

I would be interested to know if such bureaucratic nonsense is actually ultra vires their statutory function; but I have too many other things on my plate in trying to keep my firm profitable to waste time finding out.

Julian Gibbons, Norton Peskett, Great Yarmouth