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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

I look forward to hearing the response of the Minister to this group of amendments. It is helpful to have a debate about the duty of care in this legislation. I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Razzall, that we need to explore the extent to which breaches of statutory duty should or should not be included in the new offence. Linked with Amendment No. 22 are Amendment No. 28, which would leave out subsection (3), Amendment No. 30, which would leave out subsection (5), and Amendment No. 33, which would leave out lines 26 to 28 on page 3. Those amendments, which are in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Henley, were tabled to press the Government to a bit more explicit—apart from the general hostility expressed in the other place—about why they are approaching this new offence in this way.