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Cluster Munitions (Prohibitions) Bill [Lords]

I am not sure that that is the right way forward. I am quite happy to argue the case in Committee—it is the Government's job to defend the arguments we advance—but the primary issue is not only ensuring that our defence personnel have the capability they require to do the job, but ensuring that our moral peril and the physical peril to others, including the collateral damage that others sustain, is proportionate to the weaponry we use. That is an important part of the doctrine that has been around in different forms from 1868, through to the Geneva protocol of 1925 and the Landmines Act 1998.