Member

The amendments are very woolly on how, given that we have had an extensive amount of detailed discussion in previous days in Committee, the impact assessment called for would actually operate. They would introduce further unfair barriers on trade unions. On the economic impact assessment, how would this be honestly evaluated? What would be an acceptable standard of assessment? Who would monitor that it was a fair assessment? Who, indeed, would pay for it? It seems that they would put more barriers and costs on the individual members to fund something that, I think we have agreed through days in Committee, is a fairly fundamental right that people have: the right to vote democratically to take industrial action.