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Armed Forces Bill

I am grateful to the Minister for going through all those amendments. I apologise for not having spoken to Amendment No. 84, but he described the rationale for it—to clarify the situation—probably better than I could have done. We were trying to be helpful with the two amendments that act as clarification without changing the meaning. If the Government want to stay with their own language, however, we will not fight that terribly hard. On Amendment No. 78, I shall look at the Minister’s remarks in Hansard, because I could not work out what the maximum time was if special circumstances pertained. If he tells me that it is sufficiently constrained—I am sure that it is—we can look and see how it is constrained and decide how we come back on that.