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Housing and Regeneration Bill

Amendment No. 115A, which was withdrawn, turned out to have exactly the same effect as Amendment No. 115 in the name of the noble Earl, Lord Onslow, which is why I put my name to that one and withdrew the other. As the Minister said, it is rather briefer. I do not feel capable of an analytical critique of these amendments, and am grateful for her offer of the annotated notes. I wonder, though, since this is a matter that the Joint Committee on Human Rights asked to be remedied by the Bill, whether there would be an opportunity—I have no idea what the committee's timetable is; had the noble Earl been here, he might have been able to tell us—to consider the amendments before the Bill comes to an end. That would be an appropriate way to proceed, since this is something that the committee specifically raised. It brings us back to the old question of whether we should put these changes into the Bill at this stage or wait for some such opportunity. Can the Minister help me on that?