Member

Let me just pick up the examples the noble Lord, Lord Alton, quoted from the Joint Committee’s report, on which I have a slightly different take. Their presentation in the report is intended to make the reader think that, self-evidently, we should be on the side of the people in the examples—I think that is the purpose—and therefore we follow through and, in effect, support the amendments. I am afraid to say to noble Lords that I do not necessarily follow that at all.