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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

I do not want to detain the Committee, but it is a victim of atrocious grouping, which is our fault because we can all go and ask for different groupings. It is ridiculous to have a debate about public authorities and unincorporated associations as though they were under the same banner. I wish to follow up on unincorporated associations. The Minister said that he will approach the matter with care. That is not what I want. I want care, but I want a rethink because, when we addressed unincorporated associations, we were not talking about small companies, partnerships in the technical sense of partnership, industrial and provident societies or co-operatives, all of which he spoke about. I thought that we were dealing with large, unincorporated associations that operate commercially. There are such things. I asked the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lloyd, about John Lewis, but further research needs to be done. There are such organisation as that, especially locally. They are not cricket clubs. I am not trying to get directors of cricket clubs prosecuted for manslaughter; I am saying that there are commercial organisations that fall under none of the heads that I have mentioned but are unincorporated and sometimes have difficult and awkward constructions. It is quite absurd for the Bill to leave those organisations. All I want is for the Minister to say quite frankly and clearly that he will go away and think about this again with his advisers.