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Statistics and Registration Service Bill

I do not propose to press my amendment to a Division. I hope that Minister, given the way in which she called on me to respond, will take that as a consensual and constructive move on my part. I am concerned that she was wounded by the strength of the language that I used. She made it plain that the amendments were motivated by a constructive spirit on the part of the new Government. I suspect that the compromise amendments tabled by the Government in the House of Lords might have had something to do with the fact that they had just lost on pre-release by 196 votes to 133 and were facing impending defeat on these matters as well. The Minister can hardly claim that it was a particularly generous move, in the light of the defeat that they faced. On that note, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Lords amendment No. 11 agreed to. Lords amendments Nos. 12 to 15 disagreed to. Government amendments (a) and (b) made to the words so restored to the Bill. Lords amendments Nos. 16 to 19 agreed to. Lords amendments Nos. 20 to 30 disagreed to. Lords amendment No. 31 agreed to.