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Public Bodies Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart, and I very much look forward to doing that. My Amendment 176A deals with omnibus orders. The concern here is that a whole group of bodies could be dealt with under one order, which could mean that much less scrutiny would take place. It is interesting that the Government had an amendment—Amendment 126—to prevent omnibus orders in relation to the bodies listed in Schedule 7. Clearly, that falls, because we are no longer to have Schedule 7. However, if the Government thought that it was reasonable not to use omnibus orders in relation to that schedule, does not the principle arise with the bodies listed in Schedules 1 to 6? Finally, Amendment 177 is a probing amendment. It relates to hybridity and to Clause 27(4), which states: "““If the draft of an instrument containing an order under this Act … would, apart from this section, be a hybrid instrument for the purposes of the standing orders of either House of Parliament, it is to proceed in that House as if it were not such an instrument””." Can the Minister give an explanation of that? Perhaps, if it is extensive, he might care to write to me.