Member

Were I in the place of the noble Baroness the Leader of the House, who has all our interests at heart, having set out the hopes for a Select Committee that might lead to some agreed reforms—as indeed she has so constructively—I would welcome my noble friend’s ingenious amendment. It reinforces and enacts her commitment to legislate, and will strengthen her hand in those difficult discussions in the Cabinet Committee on future legislation if she can say, “Look, my friends, at what’s going on in the Select Committee in the House of Lords. Look at the interesting deliberations and what it is going to send us. How are we going to resist this?”. This is arming our Leader to reinforce her position in those difficult discussions in the Cabinet Committee on future legislation.