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Postal Services Bill [HL]

I would certainly take up that offer with the very opposite of reluctance—I cannot think of the word at the moment. I think I am right in saying that in March 2006, FRS 17 was an idea in the mind of God and perhaps the odd accountant; it certainly had not come into general use at that point. I will take ready advantage of a meeting with either the Minister or his officials or perhaps, on a red letter day, both. I also picked up from what the Minister said that the provision to which we both referred—the power to prescribe the simple procedure by which one could bypass the consent of the members—was similar to that for the Armed Forces scheme. I do not have that Act in my pile of papers but I am sure that the Minister will have an extract of it. If memory serves me right, this formulation and the one set out in the previous Act are not pari passu, and therefore the words "based on" could have a slightly different meaning. Again, this is something that I can ask the officials in due course, unless the Minister would like to respond now.