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Then there is the lack of understanding—about which everyone has spoken in our debate on this group—in the Bill of the causes of that inequality of outcome, as well as the total lack of clarity on what personal characteristics are. Last week, in his all-Peers letter—this was cited and quoted by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Burnett of Maldon—the Minister, the noble Lord, Lord Timpson, drew a distinction between what a person is and what he has become by reason of what I might call life circumstances. The noble and learned Lord, Lord Burnett of Maldon, quoted from the letter and cited the speech made by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Neuberger, in RJM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, where he said that