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Employment Bill [HL]

I can deal with that straightaway. The Government are not dealing with the consultation. ACAS will deal with the consultation. I am thinking aloud, but the reason for the confusion that has taken up so much time and detracted from debate of the point at issue is that my noble friend Lord Bach got the code out to the Committee early today. It was clearly not early enough for some Committee Members but early enough to enable the conversation to take place this afternoon. However, in that haste we failed to make clear the process by which that document will be consulted on and possibly amended. It is an ACAS document not a government document.