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Employment Bill [HL]

I thought that I was allowed to address the Grand Committee for another moment. I retain my view that this is not the way to approach an employment problem. I accept what has been said about what the Appellate Committee said—I am fully aware of it—but it does not have any special impact on what we are discussing; I accept that it should be on the basis of territorial waters; I accept quite a few things that have been said. But I will not accept that people who are paid a wage twice or three times that which they would receive in their own countries because they happen to be under a British flag in territorial waters are slave labour. If that is the Committee’s approach, I would rather say no more on it today. However, I will have a lot more to say on Report.