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Housing and Regeneration Bill

I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for having linked me to her observations. I congratulate her on having picked up the ambiguity of ““social services””. Notwithstanding what the Minister said, that term continues to contain a serious ambiguity, at least to a man from Mars. As to religious services—the gravamen of my observations—I should be entirely content if the noble Lord, Lord Mawson, felt any inclination to intervene to say whether he regards what is currently in the Bill to be entirely normal or whether I am being unduly pedantic. If the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, is considering bringing forward amendments on Report to tighten up this language, I would be happy to co-operate with her.