Member

This is excellent. However, we must not forget that this can be amended or, more importantly, withdrawn at any time by a future Government who have a change of heart. My amendments would seek to entrench them in statute, not just in statutory guidance, because statute would mean that any new Government who wanted to depart from these principles could do so, but not without the approval of Parliament, and that is the point. There would then be proper debate and Parliament would have to approve it.