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Gangmasters Licensing (Exclusions) Regulations 2006

It applies to everybody; no distinction is made, otherwise there would be a loophole for massive exploitation. Obviously, gangmasters must be licensed anyway, so we hope that there will only be good gangmasters and that they will not exploit people. But the regulations must cover everybody; you cannot send people out to work under different conditions just because they are of different nationalities. They have to work as a team, as well. I was asked why we did not do the shellfish regulations first. It was hoped that one set of licensing regulation conditions could fit both farming and shellfish gathering, but on consultation that proved not to be the case. We pushed ahead with farming so that we avoided delaying licensing any more than was necessary. I shall come back to any points that I have not covered—especially the point about paragraph 13 of the schedule that the noble Baroness asked me about.