Member

It seems to me to be really important that we should focus on giving individuals a right to stand against the state when they have something reasonable to say. I can understand, within the allowable margin on these things, wanting to tighten up the current wording, but in all my noble friend’s amendments I think he is pointing out really important changes that need to be made to the Bill and need to be reflected in the Government’s thinking generally. A citizen who has a reasonable complaint about the way they have been treated by the Government should be given a hearing, and taking it away in the way the Bill does is not something we should tolerate.