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Saving Gateway Accounts Bill

I am sorry, but the Minister has not answered my question or that of the noble Lord, Lord Newby: why there should be any need for flexibility around a definition by reference to "ordinary residence". How could the Government ever define this scheme by anything other than "ordinary residence"? We accept that there may be some need for flexibility in some of the detail, for people such as Crown servants—other categories may come in over time. However, one of the issues that I raised was why that bit is required to be in secondary legislation, not primary. Powers to make secondary legislation should be restricted to things that might change over time, not things that should be fixed points.