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Compensation Bill [HL]

Before the Minister responds, perhaps I can recap. The noble Lord has made a very important point. In effect, that would reword Clause 1, so that the requirement would be to take those steps that may ““(a) prevent an activity from being undertaken at all, to a particular extent or in a particular way, or (b) discourage persons from undertaking functions in connection with an activity””. So there is no value judgment whether that activity is in the public interest, or of public benefit or is desirable. That is an important point for the Minister to answer. It may well give us an opportunity to probe still further why ““desirable activity”” has been put in. Presumably, at some stage, the noble Baroness must have considered saying simply ““activity””. Why, therefore, has the adjective ““desirable”” been placed with ““activity””?