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Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill [HL]

My Lords, the amendments may be minor but I find them a little worrying. I would like to question the Minister about them. While I understand that no one would want to prejudice a successful ongoing police operation to charge and convict someone who genuinely should be charged and convicted, I am a little puzzled, as it seems that information can be given to the IBB, but it cannot be used in a barring decision because, if it were, it would have to be disclosed to the person concerned, which would not be desirable. What about the situation where the only information that the IBB has on which to make the correct barring decision about someone is such information, and it has no other grounds on which to put that person on the barred list? I am afraid that this may put children at risk. Can the Minister explain to us that that will not happen? This comes before us at a very late stage in the passage of the Bill, so we do not have an opportunity to unpick it. If the Minister cannot set our minds at rest, another place will have an opportunity to question these amendments in a little more detail than we can today.