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Employment Bill [HL]

I am grateful to the Minister for that offer, and I will discuss with my colleagues how best to take it forward. Having listened to the remarks made by the noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn, and by the Minister, I am not persuaded that now is not the time to attempt to enshrine in legislation, rather than relying on common law, the principles in the 60 pages to which the noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn, referred. My knowledge is not as great as his—indeed no one in this Room has as great a knowledge as he does in this area—but it seems to me that if we are at the stage of having 60 pages of definition of the employment relationship, this is perhaps a moment at which the legislature ought to be intervening to put its view. I am delighted with the Minister’s offer. In the mean time, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.