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Employment Bill [HL]

My Lords, before I put the Question that the Bill be read a second time, it may assist the House if I make it clear that it is not necessary to use the device of ““Before the Minister sits down”” at Second Reading. It is possible to interrupt the Minister during his speech to raise a particular issue with him, but I am not sure that it is for the benefit of the House to have a debate on all sorts of matters right at the end. I hope that the House will not feel that it is beyond my role to point that out.