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Banking Bill

I am not here to dispute whether the noble Lord’s dinner did or did not occur. We were discussing some technical government amendments on the special resolution procedure. As we recognised from the debate that we have just had, these are complex issues. The noble Lord has asked such a specific point that I shall have to write to him. The government amendments were considered with the greatest care. They are the products of significant representations and the noble Lord will give the Government the credit of knowing when a dinner has taken place or not. We are talking about events that are somewhat different from a dinner. This relates to the technical aspect of the description in the clause, but I will write to the noble Lord.