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Banking Bill

I shall intervene for a moment, because I am not entirely happy with the noble Lord’s answer. On the front page of the Bill, he states: "““In my view the provisions of the Banking Bill are compatible with the Convention rights””—" that is, the rights under the human rights convention. Accordingly, Clause 4(8) states that one of the objectives is, "““to avoid interfering with property rights in contravention of a Convention right””." Clause 4(9) states that the objectives ““are to be balanced””. I cannot quite see how you would balance something which, in terms of the noble Lord’s provision at the front of the Bill, appears to be absolute.