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Employment Bill [HL]

The noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn, has misunderstood my point. I was asking for a wider brief on how the code has been produced in its present form so that the Members of the Committee considering it, and noble Lords on Report, might hear the arguments for and against certain provisions which have either been omitted or inserted. Against that background, we are already told that the code is going to be amended before consultation. Again, it would be helpful to know which parts of this code have led the Minister to say that there will be amendments before consultation. I am not sure that we know which bits might be amended or what amendments are proposed. Again, the Minister will presumably have been told in the guidance he has received which parts may or may not be amended in that form. I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn, agrees with me that I have paid tribute to the Government for producing the code. I just want our debate on it to have a little more substance.