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Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill

I certainly will, Madam Deputy Speaker. To be fair, I think that I have already dealt with my hon. Friend's point. I agree that there is a danger that that will happen if the Bill is allowed to proceed in its current form. However, I think it relevant to point out briefly—very briefly, and for the good of the trade union movement—that trade union membership has halved since the 1980s, from 13 million to 6.5 million. I fear that if the Bill were allowed to proceed and a further period of industrial unrest were to follow, there could well be a further decline, perhaps—although it is not for me to say—a terminal decline in union membership. Let me now do what you have rightly asked me to do, Madam Deputy Speaker, and turn to the detail of the Bill.