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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

I, too, will read with interest what the Minister has said. The noble Lord, Lord James, is trying, quite effectively, to articulate what noble Lords should be trying to do with the Bill. At the moment there is a danger that it is simply a lawyers’ paradise which will not be understood by practical directors when they are sitting in the boardroom deciding what they should do. The thrust of our amendments—and, I suspect, the thrust of those in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt—is, without being difficult, to simplify matters so they are much clearer. That is the thread running through these proposals. The noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn, who is not in his place, is trying to do that as well, although he is going further than some of us would. I hope that the Government will reflect on our amendments. In the mean time, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.