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House of Lords (Members’ Taxation Status) Bill [HL]

I very much welcome the Minister’s suggestion and I may come to that later, but not at this stage. Such a body does not just have to be an international organisation; it must be an organisation of which states are members, and of which the United Kingdom is one of those states. I quite imagine the response to a Written Question to which the noble Lord, Lord Howard, referred. I can see that it might take a bit of money to go through the files of the FCO to find out how many international organisations there were of which the country was a member, but I cannot imagine for a moment that there is any difficulty in achieving that. It may take a bit of time and money, but that is all.