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Armed Forces Bill

I am grateful to the Minister for his reply. He described what the Defence Council, on the rare occasions when it meets, will do under Clause 106 as being purely administrative. I suggest that, to the recipient of the drug test, the number of samples that one is required to provide may not seem totally administrative. The circumstances in which one has to give them, the equipment that is used, the qualifications and training of the people who take the samples are quite substantive issues. Given that the major area of the sampling is reserved for the Secretary of State, and that the Defence Council probably does not sit around the table that often to decide on the qualifications of those taking samples, I see no great strength in the view that these two areas of sampling should be separated. Although I shall not press the matter today, we could perhaps discuss it before coming Report. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 306 agreed to. Clauses 307 to 319 agreed to. Schedule 11 agreed to. Clauses 320 to 331 agreed to. Clause 332 [Redress of individual grievances: service complaints]: