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Financial Services Bill

My Lords, I hope that my party would never do a deal, dirty or otherwise, with this Government. There is a process for agreeing outstanding legislation. That process ends with parliamentary approval—it cannot proceed without it. It is not the line-by-line approval that we are accustomed to carrying out in a Bill’s scrutiny such as that which we are attempting today, but it is a parliamentary process. Beyond that, I have to say that wash-up is above my pay grade and I can answer no further questions on how wash-up will work for this Bill or, indeed, for any other. I was about to say that we will return to some of these issues in later amendments. I thank the Minister for agreeing to Amendment 5, which was not the most important in this group, but it is nevertheless nice to have a little agreement emerging from this Committee. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 1 withdrawn. Amendment 2 Moved by