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Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill [HL]

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Harris was kind enough to say earlier that the process of parliamentary scrutiny had enabled us to reconsider issues that would improve the Bill. My best response to the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, is to say that she makes a fair and reasonable case on the discrepancy between paragraphs 4(1) and 9(1). Intensive conversations are taking place between departments on this issue. If the noble Baroness will permit me, I would like to return with an appropriate amendment in this area at Third Reading. I am not yet in a position with the authority of the Government to accept her amendments, though I fully understand her point. I would like the opportunity to come back to it at Third Reading, accepting, as I do, that she will table the same amendment at Third Reading if I should fail to do so. On that basis, I hope the noble Baroness will be content to withdraw the amendment at this stage.