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Bribery Bill [Lords]

The guidance will be issued before the Bill comes into force—although not, obviously, before it becomes law—and we will ensure that businesses and organisations representing them have time to digest it before the sections of the Act to which it relates come into force. The vast majority of business people, whether their businesses are small, medium-sized or large, are transparent and honest, and want to do a decent job. What we must not do is gratuitously catch them out.