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Charities Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am slightly lost. I am not sure that I have not acted with undue patience in having the Minister answer an amendment before I have moved it. He took a liberty at seven o’clock at night on the 353rd hour of consideration of this Bill, and I cannot blame him. He put the counterargument rather well and I am inclined to withdraw my Amendment No. 33 because I see that, if the tribunal were given the power to consider the conduct of the commission in reaching a decision, direction or order, that could allow a huge enlargement of cases and there may never be an end to them. Later, under Amendment No. 34, I shall have an opportunity to urge on the House the need for some kind of suitors’ fund, but for the moment I am content not to move Amendment No. 33. On Question, amendment agreed to.