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Financial Services Bill

My Lords, perhaps I may interrupt for a moment. The only way I can make sense of the Minister’s reply to my noble friend Lord Barnett is that he is saying that the Government intend to get this Bill on the statute book before the election. Is he saying that we will go through Committee stage, that a Report stage will be scheduled—I cannot see in my diary where he will find the room—and that the Bill will then proceed to Third Reading? The point made by my noble friend is not against the Bill or a suggestion that this Bill is not important and that we would not want to see it on the statute book, but that it will not go on the statute book until we have had an election. That is what has troubled my noble friend and it is what, to put it mildly, puzzles me. Where is the time to do the job?