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Cluster Munitions (Prohibitions) Bill [HL]

My Lords, your Lordships will be pleased to hear that this is the final amendment that I wish to raise in line with certain concerns about the Bill before we send it to another place. The concern here is with the export control order and compatibility between the requirements of the convention and of the Bill and the order itself. I defer to the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, who specifically raised this matter at Second Reading when he urged a bit more rigour in ensuring compatibility than is found in the provision in the Bill. He asked the Minister to look at this matter again because there is an obvious danger in having two sets of obligations which run in parallel and may not meet each other or reinforce each other in the way that we all want to see. That is the matter as simply stated by the noble Lord and by me, and I should very much like reassurance from the Minister, who touched on this at Second Reading, that this problem can be dealt with effectively and that it will not lead to further loopholes and difficulties in the future which we would look back on and regret. I beg to move.