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Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill

The Minister and I are in agreement on that. I do not have any difficulty there. It still raises a question, however, on how we are making a pension payment to somebody who is, perhaps, not retired and does not have a pension—unless they have saved up for themselves. Or is it being added to their commercial—I use the word in its broadest sense—pension? I will need to come back to this. An employee who is doing a great deal of work on a particular CRC project may have they been seconded from another department. Will they be considered to be full-time within this new department? I am obviously not going to press the matter now, but there is a whole range of issues and I have tried, in my amendments, to suggest to the Minister that they have not been addressed. Perhaps it would be sensible, because I do not wish to delay the House, to have further conversations on this issue between now and Report stage. I am not clear who is paying what. When somebody has been seconded to the new NDPB to do a specific job as an employee, will their pension payments will be borne by this new department, or will they be borne by, say, Defra? I accept that it is confusing, but it is a wider issue, perhaps, than I have conveyed to the Minister tonight—although I have had a second go at doing so. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.