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Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill [HL]

I concur with the noble Lord, Lord Harris of Haringey, and stress again that the reason for my amendment was to take on trust what the Minister said in his response to the concern that many of us raised at Second Reading. He stated that,"““the individual will be considered, as a matter of course, for inclusion in both lists. The independent barring board will consider this on a case-by-case basis. The two lists will also be aligned””.—[Official Report, 28/3/06; col. 757.]" What we are all asking for is that this be explicit on the face of the Bill. Why not make that dialogue explicit, and, in the words of the noble Lord, Lord Harris, what would be lost in having that reassurance in the Bill? It exercised us and many groups and organisations beyond your Lordships’ House when we were considering the Bill prior to Second Reading and between then and Committee. By inference and implication, the read-across is so important that surely it would make sense to include something to that effect in the Bill.